Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink: Suny Series, Native Traces

By reconceiving the relationship between the United States and the Anishinaabeg as one of transnational exchange, Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink offers a new methodology for the study of Native American literatures, capable of addressing a long history of mutual cultural influence while simultaneously arguing for the legitimacy, and continued necessity, of indigenous nationhood. In addition, the author reexamines several critical assumptions--about authenticity, identity, and nationhood itself--that have become common wisdom in both Native American and US literary studies.