A single decade: book-length native literary criticism between 1986 and 1997 / Craig S. Womack -- The callout: writing American Indian politics / Sean Teuton -- "Who shall gainsay our decision?": Choctaw literary critism in 1830 / Phillip Carroll Morgan -- "Go away, water!": Kinship criticism and the decolonization imperative / Daniel Heath Justice -- Land claims, identity claims: mapping indigenous feminism in literary critism and in Winona LaDuke's Last standing woman / Cheryl Suzack -- Theorizing American Indian literature: applying oral concepts to written traditions / Christopher B. Teuton -- Honoring Ni'Wahkomakanak / Janice Acoose -- Digging at the roots: location an ethical, native criticism / Lisa Brooks -- Of one blood: an argument for relations and regionality in Native American Literary studies / Tol Foster -- Samson Occom as writing instructor: the search for an interibal rhetoric / Kimberly Roppolo -- Blind bread and the business of theory making, by embarrassed grief / LeAnne Howe -- Your skin is the map: the theoretical challenge of Joy Harjo's erotic poetics / Robert Warrior -- Theorizing American Indian Experience / Craig S. Womack.