Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-329) and index.
Close encounters : Deutsche and Indianer / Susanne Zantop -- Compatriots / Emma Lee Warrior -- Germany's Indians in a European perspective / Christian F. Feest -- Historical encounters across five centuries / Colin G. Calloway -- American Indians and Moravians in Southern New England / Corinna Dally-Starna ; William A. Starna -- "The complexion of my country" : the German as "other" in colonial Pennsylvania / Liam Riordan -- German immigrants and intermarriage with American Indians in the Pacific Northwest / Russel Lawrence Barsh -- A nineteenth-century Ojibwa conquers Germany / Bernd Peyer -- German Indianthusiasm : a social constructed German national(ist) myth / Hartmut Lutz -- Nineteenth-century German representations of Indians from experience / Jeffrey L. Sammons -- Indians playing, Indians praying : native Americans in Wild West shows and Catholic missions / Karl Markus Kreis -- Germans playing Indian / Marta Carlson -- Indian impersonation as historical surrogation / Katrin Sieg -- Between Karl May and Karl Marx : the DEFA Indianerfilme / Gerd Gemünden -- "Stranger and stranger" : the (German) other in Canadian indigenous texts / Renate Eigenbrod -- An introduction to Louise Erdrich's The antelope wife / Ute Lischke-McNab -- "Blitzkuchen" : an excerpt from The antelope wife / Louise Erdrich