Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land, 43, 65–66, 164

free land, idea of, 5, 25

Freud, Sigmund, 54

gender oppression, 27, 41, 48

General Allotment Act of, 1887, 2

Genesis narrative,, 54, 65

Geronimo, 115–118, 122

Grants Mineral Belt, New Mexico, 66, 74

Hale, Janet Campbell, 27

historical memory, xi, 42, 135, 157

Hole in the Sky: A Memoir, 89, 93, 168

Homestead, 44–48, 50–53, 58–62, 64, 85–86, 152, 165–166

Indian Removal Act, 28

Indian-white relations, 36, 104

internalized prejudice, 26–27, 140

Jeffersonian yeoman farmers, 104

Kittredge, William, 9, 45–46, 89–90, 92, 168

Krupat, Arnold, 26, 28, 66

La Llorona, 129, 138, 140, 171

La Malinche, 130, 138, 171

Laguna Pueblo Indians, 66, 110

landscape, x, 4–5, 8–10, 15–20, 22, 40–42, 44–47, 49, 56, 61, 63–65, 71, 86–88, 93, 96, 117, 120, 124, 152–153, 161–162, 164

Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 58

Manifest Destiny, 29

masculinity, 6–7, 15, 41, 54, 90–91, 97, 101, 103, 109, 132, 138, 147, 169

McLoughlin, Dr. John, 26, 30, 40

McNickle, D’Arcy, 79

mestizaje identity, 132

metonymic selfhood, 67

Mexican cultural ideals, 148

Modoc War of, 1872–1873, 104

multiform narratives, 4, 125, 148

mythology of ownership, 93, 96, 98, 101, 108, 124, 168

narrative form, 4, 10–11, 85, 152–154, 162

Native American, ix, 4, 7, 9, 22–24, 26–31, 38, 40, 45, 56–57, 61, 66–69, 72, 103–106, 108, 113, 123, 132, 148, 152–153, 161, 163, 166–167, 169–170, 172

autobiography, 26, 28–29, 66, 68–69, 72, 109–112, 122, 147, 156, 163, 166, 169

defeat, 38, 49, 122, 157

subjectivity, 28, 33, 57, 66–67, 85, 113, 132, 137

natural resource extraction, 61, 87

nature writing, 18–19, 47–48

Nazi Holocaust, 57

Nevada, 2–3

New Regionalists, 45, 164

New Western, ix–xi, 7–11, 16, 18, 30, 40, 45, 58, 60–61, 130, 149, 151–152, 156–157, 161, 165

history, ix–xii, 5–7, 9–10, 17–18, 23, 25–29, 31–32, 36–40, 46–47, 57–61, 65, 68–69, 71–75, 83, 85, 94