NDQ
North Dakota Quarterly

                                    
Volume 72, Number 3                                                                 Summer 2005

American Indian Issue
Contents
     Kenneth Lincoln

5

Louise Erdrich: Dakota Poet
Ian Peddie

28
“North Dakota Is Everywhere”: Thomas McGrath’s Rural Radicalism
Robert Dawson
42

Rider the Fool and Dogfish’s Gift (stories)
Mark B. Hamilton
60

Surviving April on Lake Sakakawea and Renewal at New Town, Berthold Reservation (poems)
Fred Metting
65

Not What You Look At, but What You See: American Nature Writing, Primal Thinking, and Contemporary Sciences

Mark Pearson
84

Subverting the Landscape: Chaos, Order, Complexity, and Rivers in Thomas King’s Green Grass and Running Water
Patrick Barron
96

Edward Dorn’s Transient, Super-Local Spaces
D. E. Steward

110

Decembris       
Gregory Gagnon
115
Indian Constructions in Recent Scholarship
Janet Yoder

133

Vi’s Lucid Years









Reviews
Gregory Gagnon
146

Rebecca C. Benes, Native American Picture Books of Change: The Art of  Historic Children’s Editions and Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder, American Indian Education: A History
Fred Whitehead

152

Norma C. Wilson, The Nature of Native American Poetry
Sebastian Braun
154
Harlan LaFontaine and Neil McKay, 550 Dakota Verbs
Delbert E. Wylder
157

M. M. B. Walsh, Grass Heart
Tim Davis
159

Jackson J. Benson, The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark
James Scully

161

Robert Hedin, ed., Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism
Jill Barnum

169

Thisbe Nissen, Out of the Girls’ Room and into the Night
Rob Blixt

172

Ladette Randolph, ed., A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers and Anthony Doerr, About Grace
Eric A. Wolfe

176
Bill Meissner, American Compass
Gayle R. Baldwin

179

Kristina K. Groover, ed., Things of the Spirit: Women Writers Constructing Spirituality
Leslie A. Werden

182

Mary Esteve, The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
Editor’s Notes

184


Contributors

188












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