Contemporary discourses on "Indianness": introduction / Deborah L. Madsen -- Questions about the question of "authenticity": notes on Moolelo Hawaii and the struggle for Pono / Paul Lyons -- Cycles of selfhood, cycles of nationhood: authenticity, identity, community, sovereignty / David L. Moore -- "Back when I used to be Indian": Native American authenticity and postcolonial discourse / Lee Schweninger -- The x-blood files: whose story? whose Indian? / Malea Powell -- Modernism, authenticity and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962) / Joy Porter -- Transdifference in the work of Gerald Vizenor / Helmbrecht Breinig -- Traces of others in our own other, monocultural ideals, multicultural resistance / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- Sacred community, sacred culture: authenticity and modernity in Canadian First Nations writing / Richard J. Lane -- In conversation: postindian reflections: chickens and piranha, casinos, and sovereignty / Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee. |