volume 19 . number 4 . winter 2007 Studies in American Indian Literatures editor malea powell Michigan State University Published by the University of Nebraska Press subscriptions Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL ISSN 0730-3238) is the only scholarly journal in the United States that focuses exclusively on American Indian literatures. SAIL is published quarterly by the University of Nebraska Press for the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL). Subscription rates are $37 for individuals and $90 for institutions. Single issues are available for $21. For subscriptions outside the United States, please add $30. Canadian subscribers please add appropriate GST or HST. To subscribe, please contact the University of Nebraska Press. Payment must accompany order. Make checks payable to the University of Nebraska Press and mail to: Customer Service 1111 Lincoln Mall Lincoln, NE 68588-0630 Telephone 800-755-1105 (United States and Canada) 402-472-3581 (other countries) www.nebraskapress.unl.edu All inquiries on subscription, change of address, advertising, and other busi- ness communications should be addressed to the University of Nebraska Press. For information on membership in ASAIL or the membership subscrip- tion discount please contact: Ellen L. Arnold 1247 Stoneybrook Lane Boone, NC 28607 828-264-0968 [email protected] or [email protected] submissions The editorial board of SAIL invites the submission of scholarly, critical, pedagogical, and theoretical manuscripts focused on all aspects of American Indian literatures as well as the submission of poetry and short fiction, biblio- graphical essays, review essays, and interviews. We define “literatures” broadly to include all written, spoken, and visual texts created by Native peoples. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the most recent edi- tion of the MLA Style Manual. Please send three clean copies of the manu- script along with a self-addressed envelope and sufficient postage to permit the return of the reviewed submission, or you may submit by e-mail as an attachment (preferably in Rich Text Format [RTF]). SAIL observes a “blind reading” policy, so please do not include an author name on the title, first page, or anywhere else in the article. Do include your contact information, such as address, phone number, and e-mail address on a separate sheet with your submission. All submissions are read by outside reviewers. Submissions should be sent directly to: Daniel Heath Justice Department of English, University of Toronto 170 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5B 2M8 Canada Rights to the articles are held by the individual contributors. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America SAIL is available online through Project MUSE at http://muse.jhu.edu. Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Anthro- pological Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Bibliography of Native North Americans, Current Abstracts, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, ERIC Databases, IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews, IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, MLA International Bibliography, and TOC Premier. Cover: Photo courtesy of Bonita Bent-Nelson © 2003, design by Kimberly Hermsen Interior: Kimberly Hermsen general editor Malea Powell book review editor P. Jane Hafen creative works editors Joseph W. Bruchac and Janet McAdams editorial board Chadwick Allen, James Cox, Molly McGlennen, and Lisa Tatonetti editorial assistant Sue Webb editors emeritus Helen Jaskoski Karl Kroeber Robert M. Nelson John Purdy Rodney Simard contents vii From the Editor malea powell articles 1 Rere Ke¯/Moving Differently: Indigenizing Methodologies for Comparative Indigenous Literary Studies chadwick allen 27 Narrating Nationhood: Indian Time and Ideologies of Progress joseph bauerkemper 54 Remapping Indian Country in Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife laura m. furlan 77 Wampum as Hypertext: An American Indian Intellectual Tradition of Multimedia Theory and Practice angela m. haas 101 Coyote Warnings inés hernández-ávila 103 Writing Deeper Maps: Mapmaking, Local Indigenous Knowledges, and Literary Nationalism in Native Women’s Writing kelli lyon johnson 121 I Learned Irony in Order molly mcglennen 123 Coming Back Round molly mcglennen 125 Epilogue molly mcglennen 127 FIDJEY: Or How to Spell “Community” william s. penn 143 The Emergence and Importance of Queer American Indian Literatures; or, “Help and Stories” in Thirty Years of SAIL lisa tatonetti special section 173 Assessing Native Criticism stephanie fitzgerald 175 Conceptualizing American Indian Literary Theory Today christopher b. teuton 184 The Risk of Misunderstanding in Greg Sarris’s Keeping Slug Woman Alive franci washburn 197 A Relational Model for Native American Literary Criticism thomas hove and john m. mckinn 209 Pitfalls of Tribal Specificity ron carpenter 217 Contributor Biographies from the editor aya aya niihkaania! Aya aya all my SAIL friends and relatives. This issue of SAIL marks our thirtieth anniversary of publication—a tremendous testimony to all of us who participate in the field of American Indian writing and literary studies. While this journal began in the hearts and minds of those who created the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures and the Division on American Indian Literatures at the Modern Language Association, it has been sustained by generations of scholars, writers, and teachers who see the study of Native writ- ing, music, art, film, and performance as significant to all academic endeavors and, more importantly, as central to understanding the creative, intellectual forces that are integral to the lives of millions of Indigenous peoples who claim the American continent as “home.” The writings selected for this thirtieth anniversary issue are diverse because our field is increasingly diverse. This issue includes critical essays, poems, a short story, and a special section of revised conference papers written by established scholars and writers as well as “new” and upcoming scholars and writers. This spectrum of cre- ation to critique across the generations has wrought this fields into a community; that community has always been, and will continue to be, SAIL’s greatest strength. As many of us enter a larger conver- sation focused on creating an umbrella organization for American Indian and Indigenous studies over the next few months, I hope that this strength translates outward to other fields and becomes part of viii sail · winter 2007 · vol. 19, no. 4 that larger conversation. After all, a community behaves in ways that a loose collection of interested individuals cannot. A community is a homeplace, a support structure, a center; being a member of a com- munity is a responsibility, not a hobby or an entitlement. I have been privileged to be SAIL’s editor for the last seven years. When I began this endeavor back in 2001, there was no way that I could anticipate the joy, or the pain, that editorship brings. A lot has changed since then. We’ve gone from being locally produced using Microsoft Word and a copy machine to being produced by the University of Nebraska Press; from being searchable only through the MLA index to being abstracted and indexed in Anthological Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Bibliography of Native North Americans, Current Abstracts, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, ERIC Databases, IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews, IBS: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, TOC Premier, as well as the MLA International Bibliography; from being available online only through Bob Nelson’s killer ASAIL Web site to being a Project Muse journal. These are big changes, good changes. When I agreed to step into the editorship way back at that last Puerto Vallarta conference, I made a lot of promises about quality— both content and production—and about community. I’ve tried my very best to fulfill those promises over the past twenty-seven issues under my editorship. But I haven’t been alone in that work. There are scores of people to thank, and I want to take some space here to do just that. Thanks to the University of Nebraska Press, especially to Gary Dunham and Manjit Kaur, who have been my most steadfast allies over the past five years and to whose credit our impressive scholarly presence (in indexes and in fact) is much indebted. Thanks to all of the editorial assistants who suffered me with such good humor and grace—Daniel Justice, Mark Wojcik, Shadiin Garcia, Rain Cranford, Tina Urbain, Angela Haas, Deb Grace, and Sue Webb—and to Kim Lee who has served as my assistant editor for the past year with equal grace and humor. Thanks to the English Department at the University of Nebraska for providing initial support for SAIL; and enthusiastic thanks to the College of Arts and Letters; the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; and the Rhetoric and Writing pro- From the Editor ix gram at Michigan State University for providing generous financial and intellectual support for the work of the journal. Thanks, too, to all members of my editorial board—Chad Allen, Dean Rader, Eric G. Anderson, Joe Bruchac, Daniel Justice, Gwen Griffin, Jane Hafen, Janet McAdams, Jim Cox, and Lisa Tatonetti—whose guidance has made SAIL’s content as varied and impressive as it has been. Special thanks must go to Bob Nelson, who held my hand in those early days and guided me step-by-step into being an editor; to LaVonne Ruoff for her encouragement and, um, LaVonne-ness;