Vol. 8, No. 2 1984
 
Articles

• A Matter of Emphasis: Teaching the "Literature" in Native American Literature Courses, by Franchot Ballinger
• Cowboys and Indians: The Image of the Indian in American Literature, by Victor Macaruso
• The Tribally Controlled Colleges in the 1980's: Higher Education's Best Kept Secret, by Norman T. Oppelt

Review Essay

• The Drumming Earth: Five Recent Anthologies of Contemporary American Indian Literature, by Peter G. Beidler

Reviews

• From Sand Creek, by Simon J. Ortiz. Reviewed by Ward Churchill
• Seasonal Woman, by Luci Tapahonso. Reviewed by William Oandasan
• She Had Some Horses, by Joy Harjo. Reviewed by Mary Tall Mountain
• Echoes of Our Being, edited by Robert J. Conley, Jr. Reviewed by H. L. Meredith
• Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry, edited by Joseph Bruchac. Reviewed by John Woodrow Presley
• A Nation Within, edited by Ralph Salisbury. Reviewed by Gretchen Bataille
• The Jailing of Cecelia Capture, by Janet Campbell Hale. Reviewed by Louis Owens
• American Indian Novelists: An Annotated Critical Bibliography, by Tom Colonnese and Louis Owens. Reviewed by Jerome Klinkowitz
• The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, by Paula Gunn Allen. Reviewed by Louis Owens
• Cricket Sings: A Novel of Pre-Columbia Cahokia, by Kathleen King. Reviewed by Helen Jaskoski
• Interpreting the Indian: Twentieth-Century Poets and the Native American, by Michael Castro. Reviewed by Kenneth Roemer
• James Welch, by Peter Wild. Reviewed by Alan R. Velie