That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America

486 Pages·2014·3.984 MB·English

by  David L. Moore

THAT DREAM SHALL HAVE A NAME

That Dream Shall
Have a Name
NATIVE AMERICANS REWRITING AMERICA
David L. Moore
University of Nebraska Press
Lincoln and London
© 2013 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the American Indian Higher
Education Fund.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moore, David L.
That dream shall have a name: native Americans rewriting America / David L. Moore.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8032-1108-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. American literature—Indian authors. 2. Indians in literature. I. Title.
PS508.I5M64 2014
810.9'897—dc23 2013034297
Set in Lyon Text by Laura Wellington.
Designed by J. Vadnais.
Dedicated to the land, the ancestors,
the children, the wounded, and the healing.

That dream
shall have a name
after all,
and it will not be vengeful
but wealthy with love
and compassion
and knowledge.
And it will rise
in this heart
which is our America.
—Simon Ortiz, from Sand Creek

CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Fool Soldiers 1
1. Knowing It Was to Come: Sovereignty
as Sacrifi ce 37
2. A Plethora of Animistic Factors Immersed in Ethereal
Realities: Community as Animism 92
3. The Soul of the Indian Is Immortal:
Identity as Change 165
4. The Creative Ability of Indian People:
Authenticity as Translation 225
5. The Last Laugh: Humor and Humanity
in Native American Pluralism 300
Conclusion: America’s Struggle
with Authenticity 365
Biographical Appendix 379
Notes 383
Bibliography 407
Index 439