Introduction. Native American literary outreach and the non-native reader -- Following the tracks: history and context of native writing -- Nothing but words: from confrontation to connection in N. Scott Momaday's House made of dawn -- Revitalizing the original clan: participant readers in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- Individualism vs. separation: imagining the self to foster unity via Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart -- Writing for connection: cross-cultural understanding in James Welch's historical fiction -- The approximate size of his favorite humor: Sherman Alexie's comic connections and disconnections in The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven -- Stitching the gap: believing vs. knowing in Linda Hogan's Power.
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