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· ix · Acknowledgments My most sincere gratitude belongs to Robert Warrior and Jace Weaver for their support of this book. I owe Jace Weaver additional thanks, as well as José Limón and Chadwick Allen, for writing grant letters on my behalf. Many thanks as well to Jason Weidemann, a patient, flexible, and generous editor, and the wonderful staff at the University of Minnesota Press. The insightful observations of many other people appear in this book. Chadwick Allen read chapter 1 and reviewed multiple drafts of grant proposals . Eric Gary Anderson, Susan Kalter, Paul McKenzie-Jones, John Purdy, Carter Revard, and Matt Sparke kindly and quickly answered questions . Daniel Justice and Chris Teuton responded to a plea for help with an early version of the introduction. Miigwetch to Meg Noori for a last second explanation and picture of the mide stones. An extra special thank you to Charles Rzepka, a fellow admirer of Todd Downing, for generously sharing his Downing materials, meeting me at odd hours during MLA conventions to talk, and writing Detective Fiction. Thanks, also, to Sallie Andrews of the Wyandotte Nation, for sending her materials on Jane Zane Gordon; Frederick Boling; Lou Brock of the Osage Tribal Museum; Milissa Burkart, Library Paraprofessional, and Marc Carlson, Librarian of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tulsa’s McFarlin Library; Katy Young Evans, for finding “Encounter in Guerrero” in the Beinecke; Roy E. Goodman, Assistant Librarian and Curator of Printed Materials at the American Philosophical Society; Johannah Hochhalter; Maria Hynson, Executive Secretary to the Provost and Dean, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland; Justin Kerr and Barbara Kerr; Hillebrand Komrij, for sending images of Todd Downing’s books published in Dutch; translators Crystal Kurzen (Portuguese), Nantinee Nualnim (Thai), and Alex Pettit (Italian); David Rettig, Curator, and Belinda Trujillo, Curator Assistant and Image Archivist , Allan Houser Inc.; Sylvie Rollason-Cass, Special Collections Library X ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Assistant at the D’Arcy McNickle Center; Graham Sherriff, Public Services Assistant, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library; Jacquelyn Slater, Assistant Professor of Bibliography and Librarian, Western History Collection, University of Oklahoma; and Lori Styler, Permissions Director at the Barbara Hogenson Agency. The supportive community at the University of Texas includes research assistants Kirby Brown, Lacey Donohue, and Colleen Eils. Kirby and Colleen read the entire manuscript and provided invaluable suggestions. My deepest thanks to you both. Thank you, too, to the graduate students in my courses “American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico” and “Contemporary American Indian Fiction” and the members of the Native American Reading Group. The Department of English, the Center for Mexican American Studies, and the College of Liberal Arts provided support for travel, research, and relief from other duties. ¡Mil gracias a todos! Finally, a thank you without bounds to Helen Greer Cox, who saved the day by helping check quotations. ...