Vol. 23, No. 1 1999

Articles

• "The Old System Is No Success": The Blackfeet Nation's Decision to Adopt the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, by Paul Rosier
• The Crucible of American Indian Identity: Native Tradition versus Colonial Imposition in Postconquest North America, by Ward Churchill
• Resistant History: Revising the Captivity Narrative in "Captivity" and Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues, by Robin Riley Fast
• Perception and Procedure: The Power of Ritual in Lame Deer Seeker of Visions, by Paola Carini
• Self-Reported Smoking Behavior and Attitudes in Aboriginal Treatment Centers Across Canada, by Heather Coleman and Deanna Greyeyes
• Incommensurability and Nicholas Black Elk: An Exploration, by Scott Howard
• Sam Kenoi's Coyote Stories: Poetics and Rhetoric in Some Chiricahua Apache Narratives, by Anthony K. Webster

Commentary

• Notes from the "Culture Wars": More Annotations on the Debate Regarding the Iroquois and the Origins of Democracy, by Bruce Johansen
• Beads, Wampum, Money, Words—and Old English Riddles, by Carter Revard

Review Essay

• Ethnicity, Indian Identity, and Indian Literature, by Alan R. Velie

Literature

• Songs from an Outcast, by John Smelcer
• Animal Spirits, by John Smelcer
• Nunyae Senk'aaze, by John Smelcer
• Evening at Fielding Lake, by John Smelcer
• Talt'aezi Bene' Xeltse'e, by John Smelcer
• Loneliness, by John Smelcer
• Sneyaa, by John Smelcer
• Mourning Song for the Last Indian, by John Smelcer
• Dzitaex C'eliis Xandenne Ahtna Koht'aene, by John Smelcer
• Muskrat Woman, by John Smelcer
• Dzen Ts'akae, by John Smelcer
• The Widower's Dance, by John Smelcer
• Kayaax C'edzes, by John Smelcer

Reviews

• The Alabama-Coushatta Indians, by Jonathan B. Hook. Reviewed by Daniel M. Cobb
• American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supremem Court: The Masking of Justice, by David E. Wilkins. Reviewed by Samuel R. Cook
• The Antelope Wife, by Louise Erdrich. Reviewed by Peter G. Beidler
• Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy: Chief of the Iroquois, by Robert Griffin and Donald A. Grinde, Jr. Reviewed by Barbara A. Mann
• Dissonant Worlds, Roger Vandersteene among the Cree, by Earl H. Waugh. Reviewed by Donald B. Smith
• Early Native American Writing, edited by Helen Jaskoski. Reviewed by Amelia V. Katanski
• Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Inc., by Mick Gidley. Reviewed by Paula Richardson Fleming
• A Grammar of Bella Coola, by Philip W. Davis and Ross Saunders. Reviewed by Joseph F. Eska
• The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast, by Patricia Galloway. Reviewed by James. A. Lewis
• Legends of the Delaware Indians and Picture Writing. By Richard C. Adams, edited by Deborah Nichols. Reviewed by John Richard Beery
• Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600–1800, by Robert A. Williams, Jr. Reviewed by James Drake
• Northern Haida Songs, by John Enrico and Wendy Bross Stuart. Reviewed by Frederick White
• The Paths of Kateri's Kin, by Christopher Vecsey. Reviewed by Nancy Bonvillain
• Places of Memory: Whiteman's Schools and Native American Communities, by Alan Peshkin. Reviewed by Timothy Lintner
• Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Clash of Cultures, by Frederic W. Gleach. Reviewed by Peter C. Mancall
• Rethinking American Indian History, edited by Donald L. Fixico. Reviewed by David Arnold
• Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indians, by William T. Hagan. Reviewed by Robert L. Munkres
• To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, edited by Laura Murray. Reviewed by Joanna Brooks
• Tonto's Revenge: Reflections on American Indian Culture and Policy, by Rennard Strickland. Reviewed by Scott Vickers
• White Man's Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajo, 1863–1955, by Robert A. Trennert. Reviewed by Christopher K. Riggs