That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America

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INDEX Abram, David: The Spell of the Sensuous , 151, 153, 154, 181, 208, 228, 395n2 The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian (Alexie), 290, 292, 295–96 acculturation, 34, 244, 245, 329–31; reversed, 327, 331–32 activism, xv, 4–5, 42–46, 56, 61, 64, 90, 93, 95, 155, 175, 266, 306, 327, 336, 401n2; American Indian Movement (AIM), 189; Red Power movement, 189, 267, 289, 329 Adamic, Louis, 177 Adamson, Joni: The Environmental Justice Reader, 396n17 Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, 58 akicita, 1 Akicita wacintonsni. See Fool Soldiers Alcatraz Occupation (1969), 4 Alexie, Sherman, 5, 16, 43, 94, 169, 171, 223, 237, 277, 361, 365, 373, 384n5, 397n12; and animism, 158, 161; and authenticity, 227, 237, 290–99; and community, 93, 101, 157–61, 164; and humor, 301–2, 304–7, 309, 311, 318, 336, 340, 344– 51; and identity, 219–22; individualism , 221, 297; Kuo mentored by, 220; Poetry = Anger x Imagination, 85, 219, 221, 291, 346, 348–49; and sovereignty, 77, 85–88, 95, 105, 108, 109; as trickster, 306, 348, 382 —Works: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 290, 292, 295–96; “The American Artificial Limb Company,” 311; The Business of Fancy Dancing, 219, 382; “Dear John Wayne,” 311, 346; “A Dialogue on Race,” 297, 305; First Indian on the Moon, 349; “Freaks,” 349; “Indian Country,” 301; Indian Killer, 290, 292–95, 401n15; “Introduction to Native American Literature,” 219, 223; I Would Steal 440 Index —Works (continued) Horses, 219; “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” 340; The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, 347; Old Shirts and New Skins, 219, 220, 346, 348; One Stick Song, 311, 348–49; Reservation Blues, 86–88, 159–61, 219, 296, 349–50; “Saint Junior,” 349; “The Sin Eaters,” 309, 348; Smoke Signals, 157, 159; “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” 157; The Toughest Indian in the World, 301, 309 Alfred, Taiaiake: Peace, Power, Righteousness , 56–57 42–43, 55–57, 77; The Third Space of Sovereignty, 42–43, 55 Allen, Chadwick: Blood Narrative, 404n2 Allen, Paula Gunn: “Sacred Hoop,” 208, 210, 391n1 Allotment Act (1887), 75 Almanac of the Dead (Silko), 83, 85, 93–95, 150–57, 164, 207–9, 212, 213, 217–18, 223, 258–59, 343, 359, 361, 381, 397n9 alterity (altarity), 12, 98, 195, 234– 38, 252, 290–91, 339, 368 “The American Artificial Limb Company” (Alexie), 311 “The American Fantasy” (V. Deloria Jr.), 293, 368, 369 “The American Indian Fiction Writer” (Cook-Lynn), 32–35, 105– 6, 237, 291, 313, 376 The American Indian in Western Legal Thought (Williams), 393n17 American Indian Literary Nationalism (Weaver and Womack), 212, 391n35 American Indian Politics and the American Political System (Wilkins), 363 American Zion, 130, 132, 271 The Anatomy of National Fantasy (Berlant), 17, 230, 386n12 Anaya, S. James: Indigenous Peoples in International Law, 393n17 Anderson, Benedict: Imagined Communities, 17, 230 animism, 15, 44, 68, 83, 155, 180, 241, 279, 313, 326–27, 373, 393n15; and Alexie, 158, 161; and Apess, 132; as community, 92–164, 241; and horses, 88, 141–46, 158–64, 357; and McNickle, 139; and pluralism , 95–99, 326–27; and Silko, 150–61; and Winnemucca, 114–17 Anishinaabeg. See Ojibwas (Anishinaabeg ) anthropology, 41, 235, 243, 293, 314, 401n4 Antoine (character), 79–80, 82, 143–45, 149–50, 175, 179, 182–83, 187–88, 223, 278, 281, 283–84, 288, 298, 325, 358. See also McNickle, D’Arcy—Works: Wind from an Enemy Sky Apess, William, 5, 16, 19, 29, 43, 57, 62, 101, 123, 128, 150, 161–64, 171, 175, 178, 202–3, 222, 224, 236, 238, Index 441 248, 269, 272, 277, 303, 331, 333–36, 340, 345, 355, 373, 375, 380, 384n5, 395n32, 395n36, 397n6; and animism , 132; and authenticity, 261– 68; and community, 93, 95, 105, 108–9, 130–39; and humor, 351– 53; and identity, 189–98; lineage linked to King Philip, 133, 193; and nonviolence, 63, 69–71, 72, 351, 395n37; and sovereignty, 60–74, 77, 78, 90 —Works: Eulogy on King Philip, 60–61, 63, 67, 68, 130–34, 161, 189, 191, 224, 265, 268, 335, 397n6; The Experiences of Five Christian Indians, 64, 190, 197, 262, 268, 297; Increase of the Kingdom of Christ, 131, 132, 137; “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man,” 62, 65, 68, 131, 135, 137, 190–91, 193, 194–98, 236, 272, 353–54; Indian...