Acoma Pueblo Indians, 66, 69, 72, 88, 148, 153

Alarcon, Daniel Cooper, 4, 132

American West, the, 90, 137, 147, 151

“as-told-to” Indian autobiographies, 28–29, 112

authorship, 66

autobiographical genre, conventions of, 4, 10, 66, 68, 112, 151, 153–154

autobiography theory, 125

autonomous selfhood, 10, 17, 130, 133, 137, 154

Aztlan, myth of, 130, 132

Bannock War of 1878, 104

Bear Paw Massacre, 37

Berkhofer, Robert, 155

biblical language, 63–64

Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter, 13, 25–26, 162

borderlands, 149, 172

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 3, 121

Bureau of Land Management, 1–3

captivity narrative, 26, 29–30

captivity trope, 41

Caramelo or Puro Cuento: A Novel,, 129, 136

Ceremony, 24, 69, 111, 118, 163

Chief Joseph, 37–38, 57, 165

Chicana feminism, 132

Chicana/o writing, 9, 153–154

Chicano power movement, 132

Christianity, 32, 69, 170

Cisneros, Sandra, 128

Coeur d’Alene Indians, 26

colonialism, ix, 4, 9, 16, 29, 31–32, 47, 58, 60, 71–74, 79–80, 82, 86, 114–115, 118–119, 122, 159, 161, 164, 167, 172

colonized peoples, 10, 41, 67, 110, 144

Comer, Krista, 5, 8

confession, 33, 96–97, 103, 107–109, 162, 168

conquest, 4, 6, 15, 22–23, 25, 29, 32, 40, 45, 47–49, 57–60, 62, 72, 79, 85, 88, 90–91, 93, 96, 103, 106, 108, 117, 119, 152–153, 157, 161, 166, 168, 171

Cronon, William, 64, 151

cultural appropriation, 10, 170n14

Custer’s Last Stand, 36

Dann, Carrie and Mary, 2

ecological devastation, 93, 122

Eden, Garden of, 54

Ehrlich, Gretel, 13–14, 17, 26, 33, 47, 53, 100, 147, 152–153, 162

Enlightenment, The, 67, 108

environmental exploitation, 61, 63, 88

ethnicity, 7

Euroamericans, 35, 59, 83, 105, 119, 163