volume 22 . number 1 .

spring 2010

Studies in
American
Indian
Literatures
editors
james h. cox, University of Texas at Austin
daniel heath justice, University of Toronto

Published by the University of Nebraska Press

The editors thank the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of To-
ronto and the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of English at the Uni-
versity of Texas for their financial support.

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general editors
James H. Cox (Production) and Daniel Heath Justice (Submissions)

book review editor

P. Jane Hafen

creative works editors

Joseph Bruchac and LeAnne Howe

editorial board
Chad Allen, Lisa Brooks, Robin Riley Fast, Susan Gardner, Patrice Hollrah,
Molly McGlennen, Margaret Noori, Kenneth Roemer, Lisa Tatonetti,
Christopher Teuton, and Jace Weaver

editorial assistants
Bryan Russell and Kyle Carsten Wyatt

editors emeritus
Helen Jaskoski, Karl Kroeber, Robert M. Nelson, Malea Powell, John Purdy,
and Rodney Simard
 contents

vii From the Editors

articles
1 A Necessary Inclusion: Native Literature in Native Studies
renate eigenbrod
20 The Marriage of Mother and Father: Michif Influences as
Expressions of Métis Intellectual Sovereignty in
Stories of the Road Allowance People
mareike neuhaus
49 The Politics of the Camera: Visual Storytelling and
Sovereignty in Victor Masayesva’s Itam Hakim, Hopiit
channette romero
76 Alexie’s Nutshell: Mousetraps and Interpenetrations of
The Business of Fancydancing and Hamlet
blake m. hausman

poetry
113 romanticizing warriorhood
keith l. camacho
 book reviews
118 Kirstin C. Erickson. Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace:
The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity
david martínez
121 Eric Gansworth. A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function:
Poems and Paintings
susan bernardin
125 Luci Tapahonso. A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories
esther belin
128 Jacqueline Shea Murphy. The People Have Never Stopped
Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
patrice hollrah
132 Jordana Finnegan. Narrating the American West:
New Forms of Historical Memory
gregory wright

135 Contributor Biographies

137 Major Tribal Nations and Bands