Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Ethical Regard for the Land -- One. The Land Ethic Stereotype: American Indian Wisdom -- Two. Where the Buffalo Roam: Iconoclasts and Romantics -- Three. Between the People and the Land: Luther Standing Bear, Mother Earth, and Assimilation -- Four. Talking Back: John Joseph Mathews and Talking to the Moon -- Five. "She Gives Me a Metaphor": Survival and Louise Erdrich's The Blue Jay's Dance -- Six. Cultural Identity, Storytelling, Place: Revision and Return in Louis Owens's Wolfsong -- Seven. "From the Land Itself": Momaday's Language, Landscape, and Land Ethic -- Eight. Living with the Land: Deloria, Landscape, and Religion -- Nine. Liberation and the Land: The Environmental Ethos of Gerald Vizenor -- Ten. "Changed by the Wild": Linda Hogan's Spirit of Renewal -- Eleven. Killing the Whale: Sightings and the Makah Hunt -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.