Articles

• The Legacy of Introduced Disease: The Southern Coast Salish, by George M. Guilmet, Robert T. Boyd, David L. Whited, and Nile Thompson
• "Civilization" and Transculturation: The Field Matron Program and Cross-Cultural Contact, by Lisa E. Emmerich
• "Going to the Water": A Structural Analysis of Cherokee Purification Rituals, by Alan Edwin Kilpatrick
• "Let em Loose": Pueblo Indian Management of Tourism, by Jill D. Sweet
  

Commentaries

• White Mischief: Metaphor and Desire in a Misreading of Navajo Culture, by Thomas Patin
• Le Bon Sauvage: Dances with Wolves and the Romantic Tradition, by Angela Aleiss
  

Review Essay

• The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay, by Peter G. Beidler
  

Reviews

• Literatures of the American Indian, by A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff. Reviewed by Steven Allaback
• Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy, by Valerie Sherer Mathes. Reviewed by Helen M. Bannan
• Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature, edited by Agnes Grant. Reviewed by Edith Blicksilver
• Iroquois Women: An Anthology, edited by W. G. Spittal. Reviewed by Nancy Bonvillain
• The Red King`s Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England 1675–1678, by Russell Bourne. Reviewed by Collin G. Calloway
• Papers of the Twenty-first Algonquian Conference, edited by William Cowan. Reviewed by Edmund J. Danziger, Jr.
• An Iron Hand upon the People: The Law against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast, by Douglas Cole and Ira Chaikin. Reviewed by Michael E. Harkin
• Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century, by John D. Loftin. Reviewed by Louis A. Hieb
• Designs and Factions: Politics, Religion and Ceramics on the Hopi Third Mesa, by Lydia L. Wyckoff. Reviewed by Louis A. Hieb
• Unangam Ungiikangin Kayux Tunusangin, Aleut Tales and Narratives Collected 1909–1910 by Waldemar Jochelson, edited by Knut Bergsland and Moses L. Dirks. Reviewed by Ronald K. Inouye
• The Khlebnikov Archive: Unpublished Journal (1800–1837) and Travel Notes (1820–1822, and 1824), edited by Leonid Shur. Reviewed by Sergei Kan
• View from the Shore: American Indian Perspectives on the Quincentenary, edited by Jose Barreiro. Reviewed by Susan Lobo
• Objects of Change: The Archaeology and History of Arikara Contact with the Europeans, by J. Daniel Rogers. Reviewed by Roy W. Meyer
• Five Years a Dragoon (`49 to `54): And Other Adventures on the Great Plains, by Percival G. Lowe. Reviewed by Robert L. Munkres
• Wampum Belts and Peace Trees: George Morgan, Native Americans and Revolutionary Diplomacy, by Gregory Schaaf. Reviewed by James H. O`Donnell III
• Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold, by Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) and Elaine Goodale Eastman. Reviewed by R.D. Theisz
• The Zuni Man-Woman, by Will Roscoe. Reviewed by Walter L. Williams
• Landmarks of Healing: A Study of House Made of Dawn, by Susan Scarberry-Garcia. Reviewed by Charles L. Woodard
• Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas, by E. Stanley Godbold, Jr. and Mattie U. Russell. Reviewed by Mary Young

Letter

• Response to John F. Boatman and M. Lee Olsen from Thomas Vennum, Jr