Indianthusiasm brings together interviews with twelve Indigenous authors, artists and scholars who comment on the German fascination with North American Indigenous Peoples.

Table of Contents
The Editors Foreword
The Editors Introduction
Ahmoo Angeconeb: "I thought to myself: 'Well, I'll appropriate from the people who appropriated from us.'"
Jeannette Armstrong: "Most people can't be informed because of the way they are being informed."
John Blackbird: "Germany is my other Heimat now" and "Groan" (poem)
Warren Cariou: "The focus on remembering- ... a sort of super-ego kind of thing."
Jo-Ann Episkenew: "When the gaze turns in both directions."
Audrey Huntley: "I actually never wanted to like Germany."
Thomas King: "The thorn is in my side when I'm talking to Europeans, who begin lecturing me on Indianness."
David T. McNabb: "You can deal with stereotypes! At least you are dealing with some knowledge."
Quentin Pipestem: "It's been my job to not only entertain them through my dancing and singing, but also to educate them in the actual original traditional stories."
Waubgeshig Rice: "I was definitely an ambassador, and, sort of a mythbuster in many ways."
Drew Hayden Taylor: "You can't underestimate the influence of Karl May's Winnetou."
Emma Lee Warrior: "They want redemption somehow."

Hartmut Lutz taught North American Studies in Germany, specializing in Indigenous literatures. He won awards and professorships in North America and Europe. His publications include Contemporary Challenges: Conversations with Canadian Native Authors (1991), The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab (2005) and Contemporary Achievements (2015).Florentine Strzelczyk serves as Deputy Provost of the University of Calgary. She holds a PhD from UBC (1996). Her work has appeared in journals such as Modernism/Modernity; German Quarterly; German Studies Review; Seminar; and Quarterly Review for Film & Video.Renae Watchman (Navajo) is originally from Shiprock, NM. She is an associate professor of English, cross-appointed with Indigenous Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary. She is also a co-director of Academic Indigenization.