"Linked to the land": an introduction to reading Leslie Marmon Silko / David L. Moore -- Part I: Ceremony. "Accept this offering": introduction to part one / David L. Moore ; Healing the "Man of monstrous dreams": Indian masculinities in Silko's Ceremony / Kimberly Gail Wieser ; "Branched into all directions of time": pluralism, physics, and compassion in Silko's Ceremony / Mascha N. Gemein ; The lost women of Silko's Ceremony / Carolyn Dekker -- Part II: Almanac of the Dead. "Indian country": an introduction to part two / Indigenous economic critique in Silko's Almanac of the dead and Gaspar de Alba's Desert blood: against a philosophy of separation / Penelope M. Kelsey ; Silko, Freud, and the voicing of disavowed histories in Almanac of the dead / Deborah L. Madsen ; Seeing double: twins and time in Silko's Almanac of the dead / Beth H. Piatote -- Part III: Gardens in the Dunes. "Old Snake's beautiful daughter": introduction to part three / World of water, world of sand: Teaching Silko's Gardens in the dunes and Sullivan's Star waka / Becca Gercken ; EuroAmerica, Europe, and the indigenous: the complex (and complicating) dialectics of Silko's Jamesian turn / Lincoln Faller ; "Sand Lizard warned her children to share": philosophies of gardening and exchange in Silko's Gardens in the dunes / Rebecca Tillett