Preface to the volume / Greg Sarris
Introduction / Connie A. Jacobs
Pt. 1. Materials / Connie A. Jacobs
history of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians / Connie A. Jacobs
Of bears and birds : the concept of history in Erdrich's autobiographical writings / David T. McNab
Beneath creaking oaks : spirits and animals in Tracks / Susan Scarberry-Garcia
Sisters, lovers, Magdalens, and martyrs : Ojibwe two-sisters stories in Love medicine / Karah Stokes
Tracing the trickster : Nanapush, Ojibwe oral tradition, and Tracks / G. Thomas Couser
Tracking Fleur : the Ojibwe roots of Erdrich's novels / Amelia V. Katanski
Family as character in Erdrich's novels / Gay Barton
Does power travel in the bloodlines? : a genealogical red herring / Nancy L. Chick
"Patterns and waves generation to generation" : The antelope wife / Alanna Kathleen Brown
indigenous approach to teaching Erdrich's works / Gwen Griffin and P. Jane Hafen
Sites of unification : teaching Erdrich's poetry / Dean Rader
"And here is where events loop around and tangle" : tribal perspectives in Love medicine / Paul Lumsden
Tracking the memories of the heart : teaching Tales of burning love / Debra K. S. Barker
Academic conversation : computers, libraries, the classroom, and The bingo palace / Sharon Hoover
Gender and Christianity : strategic questions for teaching The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Peter G. Beidler
Collaboration in the works of Erdrich and Michael Dorris : a study in the process of writing / Tom Matchie
Doubling the last survivor : Tracks and American narratives of lost wilderness / John McWilliams
Identity indexes in Love medicine and "Jacklight" / James Ruppert
Reading The beet queen from a feminist perspective / Vanessa Holford Diana
Gender as a drag in The beet queen / Kari J. Winter
postcolonial reading of Tracks / Dee Horne
"This ain't real estate" : a Bakhtinian approach to The bingo palace / Patrick E. Houlihan
App. A. Genealogical charts / Nancy L. Chick
App. B. Maps / Connie A. Jacobs
App. C. Important dates in the history of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians / Connie A. Jacobs
App. D. Study guides to eight Erdrich novels / Peter G. Beidler.