Native Provenance

Gerald Vizenor is a novelist, essayist, and interdisciplinary scholar of Native American culture and literature. He is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance (Nebraska, 2009), and three recent novels, Chair of Tears (Nebraska, 2012), Blue Ravens, and Native Tributes.

• 1. Gossip Theory: Native Irony and the Betrayal of Earthdivers2. Survivance and Liberty: Turns and Stays of Native Sovereignty3. Native Transmotion: Totemic Motion and Traces of Survivance4. Natives of the Progressive Era: Luther Standing Bear and Karl May5. Expeditions in France: Native Americans in the First World War6. Visionary Sovereignty: Treaty Reservations and the Occupation of Japan7. Cosmototemic Art: Natural Motion in Totemic and Visionary Art8. Native Nouveau Roman: Dead End Simulations of Tragic Victimry9. Time Warp Provenance: Heye Obsessions and Custer Portrayals10. Trickster Hermeneutics: Naanabozho Curiosa and Mongrel Chauffeurs11. Continental Liberty: The Spirit of Chief Joseph and Dane White12. Pretense of Sovereignty: William Lawrence and the Ojibwe NewsEnvoyNotes

“Poet, novelist, and critic Gerald Vizenor is arguably the most accomplished and prolific intellectual in the field of Native American studies. . . . Vizenor’s crucial and liberating theories on Survivance, natural reason, the Postindian, and other matters are highly influential in the field. . . . The world needs more independent minds of Vizenor’s caliber.”-Michael Snyder, Great Plains Quarterly "In these essays Vizenor presents a way of seeing as compelling as his fiction."-L. De Danaan, Choice "Native Provenance introduces new and useful concepts that we can employ to appreciate the complexity of Native American archival materials."-Ricardo L. Punzalan, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage "The essays gathered in this collection sprang from rhetorical events spanning several continents, and the extended conversation is one that will satisfy those who have been following Vizenor’s critical cartography and ironic interventions from Griever de Hocus to Dogroy Beaulieu."-Margaret Noodin, Native American and Indigenous Studies "Whether American Indians and their tribal governments are truly sovereign is an interesting question for American Indian politicians and others interested in sovereignty. This book is recommended for readers interested in Native creativity and literature."-Paul Willeto, Tribal College Journal