Includes bibliographical references (p. {217}-225) and index.

pt. 1. Anti-Indianism defined -- 1. Anti-Indianism in art and literature is not just a trope -- 2. Is the Crazy Horse Monument art or politics -- 3. Literary and political questions of transformation : American Indian fiction writers -- 4. The idea of conscience and a journey into sacred myth -- 5. Tender mercies and moral dilemmas -- pt. 2. A novel class of spokespersons -- 6. Letter to Michael Dorris -- 7. A mixed-blood, tribeless voice in American Indian literatures : Michael Dorris -- 8. Innocence, sin, and penance -- 9. News of the day and the Yankton case -- 10. Science, belief, and "stinking fish" -- 11. Life and death in the mainstream of American Indian biography -- pt. 3. On writing and keeping a diary -- 12. Foreign sculptors and time zones : diary entries kept during a three-week visit to Mexico, a one-time-only effort at journal-keeping -- 13. Writing through obscurity -- pt. 4. Speeches -- 14. Pte : coming back from oblivion -- 15. Native studies is politics : the responsibility of Native American studies in an academic setting -- 16. Reconciliation, dishonest in its inception, now a failed idea -- 17. American Indian studies : an overview -- pt. 5. Genocide -- 18. Anti-Indianism and genocide : the disavowed crime lurking at the heart of America -- 19. Post colonial scholarship defames the Native voice : academic genocide -- 20. Contemporary genocide : killing along the Missouri.