Introduction : marking the indigenous in indigenous minority texts -- Part I : A directed self-determination -- A marae on paper : writing a new Maori world in Te ao hou -- Indian truth : debating indigenous identity after Indians in the war -- Part II : An indigenous renaissance -- Rebuilding the ancestor: constructing self and community in the Maori renaissance -- Blood/land/memory : narrating indigenous identity in the American Indian renaissance -- Conclusion : declaring a fourth world.