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Interview transcripts and portions of the author’s essays, revised for this volume, originally appeared in the following publications. “‘No one ever did this to me before’: Contemporary American Indian Texts in the Classroom” originally appeared in American Indian Quarterly 16, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 53–61, and is reprinted by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 1992. “‘perspective, proportion, design’: The Moral Lesson of House Made of Dawn” originally appeared in N. Scott Momaday and “House Made of Dawn,” ed. Bernadette Regal-Cellard (Paris: Éditions Ellipses, 1997), 34–41, and is reprinted by permission of Éditions Ellipses. “Bha’a and The Death of Jim Loney” originally appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures 11, no. 1 (Winter 1987): 17–25, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “The Transformation: Tayo’s Genealogy in Ceremony” originally appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures 10, no. 3 (Winter 1986): 121–33, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “He Was Going Along: Motion in the Novels of James Welch” originally appeared in American Indian Quarterly 14, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 133–47, and is reprinted by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 1990. “Against All Odds: Games of Chance in the Novels of Louise Erdrich” originally appeared in The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich, ed. Allan Chavkin (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999), 8–35, and is reprinted by permission of the University of Alabama Press. Copyright © 1999. “Building Bridges: Crossing the Waters to a Love Medicine” originally appeared in Teaching American Ethnic Literatures, ed. John R. Maitino and David Peck (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996), 83–100, and is reprinted by permission of the University of New Mexico Press.|Source Acknowledgments 254 | source acknowledgments “Agents of Agitation in Vizenor’s The Heirship Chronicles” appears in revised form in Gerald Vizenor: Litterateur at Large, ed. Simone Pellerin (University Press of Montpellier, forthcoming), 181–91, and is used by permission of Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée. “Tricksters of the Trade: ‘Remagining’ the Filmic Image of Native Americans” originally appeared in Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations, ed. Gretchen M. Bataille (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 100–118, and is reprinted by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. © 2001 by the University of Nebraska Press. “Grafting Film and Fiction: A Reading of Green Grass, Running Water” originally appeared in Imaginary (Re-)Locations: Tradition, Modernity , and the Market in Contemporary Native American Literature and Culture, ed. Helmbrecht Breinig (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2003), 185–99, and is reprinted by permission of Stauffenburg Verlag. “Hard Laughter: Humor and Survivance in Louis Owens’ Novels” originally appeared in Indian Stories, Indian Histories, ed. Fedora Giordano and Enrico Comba (Torino: Otto Editore, 2004), 59–67, and is reprinted by permission. “Moving Stories: Visualizations, Mise-en-scène, and Native American Fiction” originally appeared in Western American Literature 41, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 177–200, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “A Conversation with Simon Ortiz” originally appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures 12, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 1–14, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “Clear Waters: A Conversation with Louis Owens” originally appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures 10, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 6–22, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “Crossroads: A Conversation with Sherman Alexie” originally appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures 9, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 1–18, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “‘And then, twenty years later . . . ’: A Conversation with Paula Gunn Allen ” originally appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures 9, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 5–16, and is reprinted by permission of the author. “The Future of Print Narratives and Comic Holotropes: A Conversation with Gerald Vizenor” originally appeared in American Indian Quarterly 29, nos. 1 & 2 (Winter–Spring 2005): 212–25, and is reprinted by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press. ...

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