Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays : a Tribal Voice

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Preface; Introduction; Part One: Thoughts on the Art of Reviewing Books ; 1. Wounded Knee, 1973; 2. The Broken Cord; 3. Black Eagle Child; 4. Black Hills, White Justice; Part Two: Dispossession ; 5. Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner; 6. A Centennial Minute from Indian Country; or Lessons in Christianizing the Aboriginal Peoples of America from the Example of Bishop William Hobart Hare; Part Three: Who Will Tell The Stories?; 7. The Relationship of a Writer to the Past: Art, a Literary Principle, and the Need to Narrate. 8. The American Indian Fiction Writers: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, the Third World, and First Nation SovereigntyPart Four: Women's Lives ; 9. The American Indian Woman in the Ivory Tower; 10. The Big Pipe Case; Part Five: The Last Word ; 11. How Scholarship Comes to Be Relevant, or Dumbarton Oaks Is Fifty Years Old; 12. America's Oldest Racism: The Roots of Inequality; 13. End of the Failed Metaphor; Notes; Selected Bibliography