1. Louise Erdrich in Context Deborah L. Madsen \ PART I: Tracks \ Short introduction Deborah L. Madsen \ 2. A Bowen Family Systems Reading of Tracks Allan Chavkin & Nancy Feyl Chavkin \ 3. "I knew there never was another martyr like me": Pauline Puyat, Historical Trauma, and Tracks Connie A. Jacobs \ 4. "To become a bureaucrat myself": History and Law in Tracks David Stirrup \ PART II: The Last Report on the Miracles At Little No Horse \ Short introduction Deborah L. Madsen \ 5. Power and Authority in the Realms of Racial and Gender Politics: Postcolonial and Critical Race Theory in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Mark Shackleton \ 6. "We Speak of Everything": Indigenous Traditions in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse P. Jane Hafen \ 7. Love and the Slippery Slope of Sexual Orientation: L/G/B/T/Qetc Sensibility in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Patrice Hollrah PART III: The Plague of Doves \ Short introduction Deborah L. Madsen \ 8. "It All Does Come to Nothing in the End": Nationalism and Gender in Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves Gina Valentino \ 9. So, a Priest Walks into a Reservation Tragicomedy: Humor in The Plague of Doves John Gamber \ 10. Haunted by Birds: An Eco-critical View of Personhood in Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves Catherine Rainwater \ Works cited \ Further Reading \ Notes on Contributors \ Index