Indianthusiasm

Hartmut Lutz taught North American Studies in Germany, specializing in Indigenous literatures. He won awards and professorships in North America and Europe. His publications include Contemporary Challenges: Conversations with Canadian Native Authors (1991), The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab (2005) and Contemporary Achievements (2015). Florentine Strzelczyk serves as Deputy Provost of the University of Calgary. She holds a PhD from UBC (1996). Her work has appeared in journals such as Modernism/Modernity; German Quarterly; German Studies Review; Seminar; and Quarterly Review for Film & Video. Renae Watchman (Navajo) is originally from Shiprock, NM. She is an associate professor of English, cross-appointed with Indigenous Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary. She is also a co-director of Academic Indigenization.

1. Introduction / Hartmut Lutz, Florentine Strzelczyk, and Renae Watchman
2. I thought to myself: ""Well, I'll appropriate from the people who appropriated from us"" / Ahmoo Angeconeb
3. Most people can't be informed because of the way they are being informed / Jeannette Armstrong
4. Germany is my other Heimat now; ""Groan"" (poem) / John Blackbird
5. The focus on remembering "" a sort of superego kind of thing / Warren Cariou
6. When the gaze turns in both directions / Jo-Ann Episkenew
7. I actually never wanted to like Germany / Audrey Huntley
8. The thorn is in my side when I'm talking to Europeans, who begin lecturing me on Indianness / Thomas King
9. You can deal with stereotypes! At least you are dealing with some knowledge / David T. McNab
10. It's been my job to not only entertain them through my dancing and singing, but also to educate them in the actual original traditional stories / Quentin Pipestem
11. I was definitely an ambassador and sort of a mythbuster in many ways / Waubgeshig Rice
12. You can't underestimate the influence of Karl May's Winnetou / Drew Hayden Taylor
13. They want redemption somehow / Emma Lee Warrior