Native American representations : first encounters, distorted images, and literary appropriations / edited by Gretchen M. Bataille.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.

As if an Indian were really an Indian: Native American voices and postcolonial theory / Louis Owens -- The Indians America loves to love and read: American Indian identity and cultural appropriation / Kathryn Shanley -- Return of the buffalo: cultural representation as cultural property / David L. Moore -- Representation and cultural sovereignty: some case studies / David Murray -- Tricksters of the trade: "remagining" the filmic image of Native Americans / John Purdy -- Telling stories for readers: the interplay of orality and literacy in Clara Pearson's Nehalem Tillamook tales / Jarold Ramsey -- Cooperation and resistance: Native American collaborative personal narrative / Kathleen M. Sands -- Western literary models and their Native American revisiting: the hybrid aesthetics of Owens's The Sharpest Sight / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- Identity and exchange: the representation of "The Indian" in the Federal Writers Project and in contemporary Native American literature / Hartwig Isernhagen -- Reversing the gaze: early Native American images of Europeans and Euro-Americans / A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff -- Metacritical frames of reference in studying American Indian literature: an afterword / Kathryn Shanley.