Writing home: indigenous narratives of resistance

Introduction. Indigenous resistance fiction

Assimilation or appropriation? the idea of the center in N. Scott Momaday's Way to rainy mountain and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

"Authenticity" and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

The ethical use of indigenous traditions in contemporary literature

Writing a friendship dance : orality in Mourning Dove's Cogewea

Bearheart : Gerald Vizenor's compassionate novel

Muted traditions and dialogic affirmation in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine

Perpetual metamorphosis : transformational journeys in Ray Young Bear's Black eagle child

Conclusion. Writing the indigenous nation.