Happy to report that the latest issue of WAL, 49.1, spring 2014, is now up
on Project Muse. (Not sure why they don't have 48.4 up yet.)  It's a
special issue on "Indigenous Wests: Literary and Visual Aesthetics" guest
edited by Susan Bernardin.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/western_american_literature/toc/wal.49.1.html

If it hasn't already, it should be appearing in your mailbox  shortly.
-Tom

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Indigenous Wests: Literary and Visual Aesthetics  SUSAN BERNARDIN (Guest
Editor)

The Significance of the Frontier in Comanche Poetry  SCOTT ANDREWS

The End (of the Trail) is the Beginning: Stephen Graham Jones’s *The Bird
is Gone*  JOHN GAMBER



“This Is Our Playground”: Skateboarding, DIY Aesthetics, and Apache
Sovereignty in Dustinn Craig’s *4wheelwarpony*  JOANNA HEARNE



“Just by doing it, we made it appear”: Dustinn Craig on *We Shall Remain:*
*Geronimo*, *4wheelwarpony*, and the *Apache Scouts* Project   Interview
JOANNA HEARNE and DUSTINN CRAIG



It’s a Good Day to Bike: Indigenous Futures in Ramona Emerson’s *Opal   *SUSAN
BERNARDIN





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Editor, *Western American Literature*
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