Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Reframing Dance, Performance, and Traditional Stories for a Postmodern Era -- 1. Inventing Native Modern Dance: A Tough Trip through Paradise - Daystar/Rosalie Jones -- 2. Old Spirits in a New World: Pacific Northwest Performance: Identity, Authenticity, Theatricality - Sarah Bryant-Bertail -- 3. Owners of the Past: Readbacks or Tradition in Mi'kmaq Narratives - Anne-Christine Hornborg -- 4. The Pocahontas Myth and Its Deconstruction in Monique Mojica's Play Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots - Maria Lyytinen -- Part II. The Native Body in Performance -- 5. Stories from the Body: Blood Memory and Organic Texts - Monique Mojica -- 6. Acts of Transfer: The 1975 and 1976 Productions of Raven and Body Indian by Red Earth Performing Arts Company - Julie Pearson-Little Thunder -- 7. Embodiment as a Healing Process: Native American Women and Performance - Shelley Scott -- 8. The Hearts of Its Women: Rape, (Residential Schools), and Re-membering - Ric Knowles -- Part III. Native Representation in Drama -- 9. "People with Strong Hearts": Staging Communitism in Hanay Geiogamah's Plays Body Indian and 49 - Jaye T. Darby -- 10. Coming-of-Age on the Rez: William S. Yellow Robe's The Independence of Eddie Rose as Native American Bildungsdrama - David Krasner -- 11. Feathers, Flutes, and Drums: Images of the Indigenous Americans in Chicano Drama - Jorge Huerta -- 12. Metamora's Revenge - Bruce McConachie -- Part IV. Challenging Stereotypes through Film -- 13. Performance and "Trickster Aesthetics" in the Work of Mohawk Filmmaker Shelley Niro - Kristin L. Dowell -- 14. Speaking Lives, Filming Lives: George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva - Annie Kirby-Singh -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index.