The Worlds between Two Rivers: Perspectives on American Indians in Iowa

Originally published in 1978, The Worlds between Two Rivers intentionally reflected a wide spectrum of views on Native Americans in Iowa: those of Native Americans themselves and of Euro-Americans, those of laypeople, and those of professional educators, social scientists, and humanists.  Now, more than twenty years later, this expanded edition reflects the far-reaching and complicated changes for American Indians in this region.
Two new essays--one discussing the issues surrounding the reburial of disinterred American Indian skeletal remains and the repatriation of bones and cultural objects, the other dealing with the native people from whom the state of Iowa took its name--not only express the continuing American Indian presence in Iowa but also extend the bridge for non-Indian people to better understand those Iowans who represent the state's first nations.

Gretchen Bataille is provost and academic vice president at Washington State University; she was formerly in the Department of English at Iowa State University, where she taught American Indian literature. David Gradwohl is professor emeritus of anthropology at Iowa State University and former chair of the university's American Indian Studies Program. Charles Silet is professor of English at Iowa State University, where he teaches, does research, and publishes on contemporary fiction, culture, and film.