Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her many books include Understanding Gerald Vizenor; American Exceptionalism; and Allegory in America.

Preface
Introduction
Contemporary Discourses on "Indianness"
Deborah L. Madsen
1. Questions about the Question of "Authenticity": Notes on Mo'olelo Hawai'i and the Struggle for Pono
Paul Lyons
2. Cycles of Selfhood, Cycles of Nationhood: Authenticity, Identity, Community, Sovereignty
David L. Moore
3. "Back when I used to be Indian": Native American Authenticity and Postcolonial Discourse
Lee Schweninger
4. The X-Blood Files: Whose Story? Whose Indian?
Malea Powell
5. Modernism, Authenticity, and Indian Identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962)
Joy Porter

6. Transdifference in the Work of Gerald Vizenor
Helmbrecht Breinig
7. Traces of Others in Our Own Other: Monocultural Ideals, Multicultural Resistance
Juan Bruce-Novoa
8. Sacred Community, Sacred Culture: Authenticity and Modernity in Contemporary Canadian Native Writings
Richard J. Lane
In Conversation
Postindian Reflections: Chickens and Piranha, Casinos, and Sovereignty
Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee
Contributors
Index