Abstract
Contents: Introduction: short history of American Indian historicity; 1. Some dynamics of American Indian historicity; 2. Within reach of memory - oral traditions, legends and history; 3. Almost timeless truths - myth and history; 4. Commentaries and subversions - memorates, jokes, tales and history; 5. Anchoring the past in place - geography and history; 6. Memories in things - material culture and Indian histories; 7. Renewing, remembering and resisting - rituals and history; 8. Old stories, new ways - writing, power and Indian histories; 9. Futures of Indian pasts - prophecy and history.