frontier, 14, 35, 85–88, 95, 101, 108, 185, 191, 193–195, 197, 201–203, 205, 207, 236–237

western, 25, 31, 77, 94, 96, 200

Gallagher, Victoria J., 35, 40

genocide, 25, 196, 198

and Holocaust, 43–44, 49, 51, 54, 235

Ground Zero, 17, 178, 234

habituation, 55, 184

habitus, 174

Halbwachs, Maurice, 242

Halaas, David, 45

Hart, Lawrence, 44

heritage industry, 17

hero, 187–188

heteroglossia, 160

identity, 2, 8, 12, 14–16, 25, 27, 31, 33–34, 38, 47–48, 50–51, 53, 55, 60–61, 74, 77, 86–87, 94–95, 98, 102–103, 106–108, 130–131, 134, 139, 141–142, 145, 153–154, 156–157, 159–160, 173, 175–176, 179, 183–184, 186–187, 190–199, 208–209, 211, 214–215, 218–219, 224, 233–236, 238–239, 241

imagined communities, 13, 159

Indian Wars

and American, 25, 36, 39, 46, 54, 80, 86, 92, 101, 195, 223

intertextuality, 145, 155, 159

Into the West, 13, 31, 56–57

investigation of Sand Creek, 85

Iraq, 44, 46

Jefferson, Thomas, 101

Judeo-Christian, 52–53, 61, 185–187, 194, 198, 204, 210

Kramer, Joseph, 188, 247

Lakota, 119, 203–204, 207, 213, 216

Left Hand, 58, 248, 250, 252

Lepore, Jill, 29, 73, 102

lieux de memoire, 15, 237

liminal, 153, 236–237

lineage, 139–142, 153, 155, 159

Lincoln, Abraham, 58–60

Little Arkansas River Treaty, 182

Little Big Horn

and Battle, 2, 35, 39, 200–201, 207, 213, 234

Little Robe, Chief, 81, 84, 248

location, 131, 157

contested, 1, 4, 12, 15, 158, 161

historical methods used, 4, 11–12, 15, 30, 41, 77, 107, 121–123, 135–139, 141, 143, 148, 150, 152, 154–156, 158–161, 185, 223

of massacre site, 1, 4, 12, 41–42, 74, 121–122, 135, 139, 158, 161

of Sand Creek, 1, 4–5, 12, 15, 38, 41–43, 61, 74, 99, 121–122, 148, 150, 158–159, 161, 179–181

manifest destiny, 33, 47, 49, 77, 108, 186

martyrdom, 60–62, 188, 190–191, 203–204, 208, 217

mea culpa, 35, 40, 107, 109, 134, 234–235, 238, 240