Contents -- (Pre)amble -- Indi'n -- Characters -- Terrain -- 1. Red/White American -- Back Home -- Terms -- White Ideas -- Metacritical Twists -- God's Red Grin -- 2. Historical Slippage -- Dark Red Humor -- Comic Indi'n Outcast -- Neoprimitives -- Buckskin Cartoons -- culture to Culture -- 3. Playing Indian -- Comic Interface -- "All Men, All Kinds" -- Caliban, Again -- "Skins Red" -- Descendants of Columbus -- 4. Old Tricks, New Twists -- Red Renaissance -- "My Fellow Clansman" -- Cousin Coyote -- Fonseca's Critter -- Trickster Slippage -- Indi'ns Playing Indians -- 5. Feminist Indi'ns -- Doubly Othered -- Coyotess -- Move Over, Buddy -- Howling Down the Moon -- Her Name Means "Home" -- 6. "Bring Her Home": Louise Erdrich -- Modes -- Homing -- The Orphans' Picnic -- Going Back -- Comic Cast -- Contraries -- Belonging -- Native Wit -- Coming on Home -- 7. Red Gods, Blue Humors: James Welch -- Purgatorial Jive -- Funky Indi'ns -- Bad Jokes -- Crude Comic Pop -- Indi'n Ends? -- 8. Comic Accommodations: Momaday and Norman -- Serious Play -- Trickster Be with Us -- Seeing Cree -- Clipped Talk -- Coda -- Appendix A: Reservation Jokes -- Appendix B: Teaching Indi'n Humor -- Appendix C: Interview with Hanay Geiogamah -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Humor and Joking of the American Indian: A Bibliography -- 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.