-Almost Gegaa Browne erald Vizenor's character Almost Browne, in Hotline Healers,'reveals something of the quandary faced by the American Indian oral historian. Although his version of the truth is marginalized by the domi-nance of another language and the literary conventions of the bearer of that foreign language, he" has never been... a coach of victimry. The traces of his native ancestors are always tricky, but never tragic"(1). He challenges the purveyors of the discourses of Euro-American domination-the journalist, the anthropologist, the university professor, the judge-to" tease" their own history. Almost recognizes that, for the American Indian, the conventions of Euro-American genres dictate that the story can only be told one way, and that way is as oppressive to the Indian mind and spirit as social and political dominance. Almost recognizes that" tricky stories are the sovereignty of motion