From the Editor

aya aya niihkaania!

This issue marks our one-year anniversary with the University of Nebraska Press, and I hope that you are all as happy with that partnership as I am. As SAIL continues to move forward and be the main outlet for scholarly work on American Indian literatures, it is important to recognize all that we have been and all the people who have made that existence possible. For those of you who have been keeping track, SAIL has an important anniversary coming up: In 2007 SAIL as a quarterly journal will be thirty years old. Over the coming year, you'll start to hear folks talking about ways in which we might want to mark that anniversary—with a special issue; with a series of articles articulating the trajectory of SAIL and its parent organization, ASAIL; with conference presentations; and, of course, with celebration. As always, I encourage you to put your own two cents forward about the best ways to mark this moment, both for those of us who have the privilege of being American Indian literature scholars today and for those who came before us and laid a foundation upon which we could reliably build. So let me know what you would like to see, how you would like to mark the past thirty years, and how you would like to set the stage for the next thirty years of scholarship in our field.