Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword: Going to Canada / Warren Cariou -- Code-Switching Humour in Aboriginal Literature / Kristina Fagan -- Tawinikewin / Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe -- Time Tomson Highway Went to Mameek and Survived to Tell The Tale / Tomson Highway -- Book That Affected Me The Most / Tomson Highway -- Relevant Resonance: Considering the Study of Indigenous National Literatures / Daniel Heath Justice -- Toward a National Literature: 'body of writing' / Lee Maracle -- Negotiating a Different Terrain: Geographical and Education Cross-Border Difficulties / Lorraine Mayer -- Cree Poetic Discourse / Neal McLeod -- Wachea / Duncan Mercredi -- Writing and Life / Duncan Mercredi -- My Grandfather's Face (a radio play) / Daniel David Moses -- April, Cheryl, and Me / Beatrice Mosionier -- Memory, History, and the Present / Simon Ortiz -- Writing Autobiographically: A Neglected Indigenous Intellectual Tradition / Deanna Reder --

Where the Voice Was Coming From / Armand Garnet Ruffo -- Native American Theory Class Room / Craig Womack -- From Orion to the Postindian: Vizenor's Movement Towards Postmodern Theory / Michael Snyder -- Louis Owens's Intervention in the World of the Novice Reader: Methodology and Native American Literary Criticism / Steven Sexton -- Tending to Ourselves: Hybridity and Native Literary Criticism / Niigonwedom James Sinclair -- Conversation between Jeanette Armstrong and Hartmut Lutz / Jeannette Armstrong and Hartmut Lutz -- Talking Across Borders: An Interview with Greg Sarris / Greg Sarris and Kelly Burns -- Sitting Down to Ceremony: An Interview with Gregory Scofield / Gregory Scofield and Tanis MacDonald -- Living in a Time for Celebration: An Interview with Richard Van Camp / Richard Van Camp and Junko Muro.