Native American novels : homing in / William Bevis -- Fighting for her life : the mixed-blood woman's insistence upon selfhood / Janet St. Clair -- A Japanese perspective on Native American fiction / George Saito -- Fourth world fictions : a comparative commentary on James Welch's Winter in the blood and Mudrooroo Narogin's Wild cat falling / Emmanuel Nelson -- The historical matrix : towards a national Indian literature / Simon Ortiz -- D'Arcy McNickle. Textual perspectives and the reader in The surrounded / James Ruppert -- The first generation of Native American novelists / Priscilla Oaks -- The surrounded / Charles Larson -- N. Scott Momaday. Ancient children at play : lyric, petroglyphic, and ceremonial / Kenneth Roemer -- Words and place : a reading of House made of dawn / Lawrence Evers -- Who puts together / Linda Hogan -- Gerald Vizenor. "Ecstatic strategies" : Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart / Louis Owens -- Vizenor : post-modern fiction / Alan R. Velie