Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Place-Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature Anna M. Brígido-Corachán Grounded Relationality: A Reading of Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature (Gordon Henry, Leanne Simpson, Louise Erdrich) Silvia Martínez-Falquina Spider's Embrace: Louis Owens's Web of Identities in Dark River David L. Moore Cross-Worlds: The Sight and Sound of James Welch A. Robert Lee Slender Vial of DNA / For Sale: Dismantling Genomic Articulations of Indigeneity in the Poetry of Heid E. Erdrich Joanna Ziarkowska A Futurism That Sees No Future: Recognition in Ayi Kwei Armah, James Welch, and Corwin Clairmont Kathryn W. Shanley Atonement and Forgiveness as Reparatory Justice in Louise Erdrich's LaRose and Fernando Aramburu's Homeland Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz Relational Bodies in Motion: A Trans-Indigenous Reading of Ofelia Zepeda and Irma Pineda's Place-Based Poetry Anna M. Brígido-Corachán A Prayer from the Galaxy of the Soul: Simon J. Ortiz's Poetry of Continuance Ewelina Baoka Contributors.