Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. "Identity" and "Difference" in the Textualization of Zuni Verbal Art
Two. Situations and Performances
Three. "Not So Stupid as They May Have Been Painted": The Jesuits and Native Canadian Verbal Art
Four. "A Sort of Loose Poetry": Henry Timberlake's Cherokee War Song
Five. "Tokens of Literary Faculty": Texts and Contexts in the Early Nineteenth Century
Six. "All We Could Expect from Untutored Savages": Schoolcraft as Textmaker
Seven. "The True Presentiments of the Indian Mind": Linguistic Texts as Data Sources
Eight. Natalie Curtis in Hopiland
Nine. The Anthology as Museum of Verbal Art
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index