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1. 'Honoratissimi Benefactores': Native American students and twoseventeenth-century texts in the university tradition WolfgangHochbruck and Beatrix Dudensing Reichel; 2. 'Pray, Sir, consider alittle': rituals of subordination and strategies of resistance in theletters of Hezekiah Calvin and David Fowler to Eleazer Wheelock LauraJ. Murray; 3. '(I speak like a fool but I am constrained): SamsonOccom's Short Narrative and economies of the racial self Dana D.Nelson; 4. Where, Then, Shall We Place the Hero of the Wilderness?:William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip and doctrines of racial destinyAnne Marie Dannenberg; 5. 'They ought to enjoy the home of theirfathers': the Treaty of 1838, Seneca Intellectualism, and LiteraryGenesis Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr; 6.' I am Joaquin!': Space andfreedom in Yellow Bird's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta,the Celebrated California Bandit John Lowe; 7. This VoluminousUnwritten Book of Ours: early Native American writers and oraltradition William M. Clements; 8. 'A terrible sickness among them':Smallpox and stories of the Frontier Helen Jaskoski; 9. 'A desirablecitizen, a practical business man': G. W. Grayson - Creek mixed blood,nationalist, and autobiographer Robert F. Sayre; 10. An Indian ... anAmerican: ethnicity, assimilation and balance in Charles Eastman's Fromthe Deep Woods to Civilization Eric Peterson; 11. 'Overcoming allobstacles': the assimilation debate in Native American women'sjournalism of the Dawes era Carol Batker; 12. 'My people ... my kind':Mourning Dove's Cogewa, the Half-Blood as a narrative of mixed descentMartha L. Viehmann; 13. 'Because I understand the storytelling art':the evolution of D'Arcy McNicle's The Surrounded Birgit Hans.