From the Editors

James Mackay orients us critically, historically, and politically in his introduction, but we want to take a brief moment to thank him and all the contributors for putting together such an impressive and timely special issue. This issue is the product of a conversation, in which Gerald Vizenor and Winona LaDuke participated, that remains evident on the printed page in the cohesive focus of the articles and reviews and the frequent intra-issue references to articles by the other authors. In the process of developing this new, exciting critical method, constitutional criticism, these authors identify the many specific places where the literary and political currently meet in our field. Equally exciting to the co-editors is that the issue is simultaneously tribal nation specific, Indigenous transnational, hemispheric, and global. Don't be surprised if you find yourself reading it at one sitting.