Clearing a path : theoretical approaches to the past in Native American studies / edited by Nancy Shoemaker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nancy Shoemaker -- Oral History, Narrative Strategies, and Native American Historiography: Perspectives from the Yukon Territory, Canada / Julie Cruikshank -- The Story of America: A Tribalography / LeAnne Howe -- Categories / Nancy Shoemaker -- "Some Women Are Wiser Than Some Men": Gender and Native American History / Gunlog Fur -- Marxism and Historical Materialism in American Indian History / Patricia C. Albers -- Primary Sources: Indian Goods and the History of American Colonialism and the 19th-Century Reservation / Jacki Thompson Rand -- Keep Your Thoughts Above the Trees: Ideas on Developing and Presenting Tribal Histories / Craig Howe -- Life Proceeds from the Name: Indigenous Peoples and the Predicament of Hybridity / James F. Brooks.