Introduction: "imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Jeff Berglund
Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / Lisa Tatonetti
"Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor / Philip Heldrich
"An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Elizabeth Archuleta
Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / P. Jane Hafen
This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / James H. Cox
Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / Angelica Lawson
The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez
The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Nancy J. Peterson
Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / Patrice Hollrah
"Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Meredith James
Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Stephen F. Evans
Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Margaret O'Shaughnessey
Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Jan Johnson
The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship / Jeff Berglund.