Introduction / Kenneth M. Roemer
Timeline : literary, historical, and cultural conjunctions / Kenneth M. Roemer
1. Historical and cultural contexts to Native American literature / Joy Porter
2. Translation and mediation / David Murray
3. Women writers and gender issues / Annette van Dyke
4. Non-fiction prose / Bernd Peyer
5. Native American life writing / Hertha D. Sweet Wong
6. America's indigenous poetry / Norma C. Wilson
7. Pre-1968 fiction / A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff
8. Fiction : 1968 to the present / James Ruppert
9. American Indian theatre / Ann Haugo
10. N. Scott Momaday : becoming the bear / Chadwick Allen
11. Simon Ortiz : writing home / Patricia Clark Smith
12. James Welch : identity, circumstance, and chance / Kathryn W. Shanley
13. Leslie Marmon Silko : storyteller / Robert M. Nelson
14. Gerald Vizenor : postindian liberation / Kimberly M. Blaeser
15. Louise Erdrich's storied universe / Catherine Rainwater
16. Joy Harjo's poetry / Laura Coltelli
17. Sherman Alexie : irony, intimacy, and agency / David L. Moore.
