"They have stories, don't they?": some doubts regarding an overused theorem / Hartwig Isernhagen -- Plotting history: the function of history in Native North American literature / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- Transculturality and transdifference: the case of Native America / Helmbrecht Breinig -- American Indian novels of the 1930s: John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's Surrounded / Gaetano Prampolini -- Transatlantic crossings: new directions in the contemporary Native American novel / Brigitte Georgi-Findlay -- Of time and trauma: the possibilities for narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The woman who owned the shadows / Deborah L. Madsen -- "Keep wide awake in the eyes": seeing eyes in Wendy Rose's poetry / Kathryn Napier Gray -- Anamnesiac mappings: national histories and transnational healing in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead / Rebecca Tillett -- Vizenor's trickster theft: pretexts and paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart / Paul Beekman Taylor -- "June walked over it like water and came home": cross-cultural symbolism in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine and Tracks / Mark Shackleton -- Encounters across time and space: the sacred, the profane, and the political in Linda Hogan's Power / Yonka Krasteva -- Double translation: James Welch's Heartsong of Charging Elk / Ulla Haselstein -- Clowns, Indians, and poodles: spectacular others in Louis Owens's I hear the train / Simone Pellerin -- Oklahoma international: Jim Barnes, poetry, and the sites of imagination / A. Robert Lee