(THOMAS) KING, THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN — Native history is... akin to a fossil hunt in which we find a skull in... Idaho, a thigh bone on the Montana plains, a tooth... in Virginia, and... assuming... all... are from the same animal, we guess at the size and shape of the beast.
As a series of artifacts, Native history is somewhat akin to a fossil hunt in which we find a skull in Almo, Idaho, a thigh bone on the Montana plains, a tooth near the site of Powhatan's village in Virginia, and then, assuming that all the parts are from the same animal, we guess at the size and shape of the beast.
| A. | Room where Puebloan rites are performed | KIVA |
| B. | Call home? | INHABIT |
| C. | Passing remark? (2 wds.) | NOTHANKS |
| D. | Cheerful, easygoing, friendly | GENIAL |
| E. | Tentative explanations | THEORIES |
| F. | Antiwar orator fictionalized in a Longfellow "song" | HIAWATHA |
| G. | Spin delivered on cue? | ENGLISH |
| H. | Catch-22, stalemate | IMPASSE |
| I. | Colony centered in Mexico City (2 wds.) | NEWSPAIN |
| J. | Author Willa who wrote "O Pioneers!" | CATHER |
| K. | Unfriendly, distant, aloof | OFFISH |
| L. | Smallest member of a famous trio | NINA |
| M. | Feudal fealty; subordinate state | VASSALAGE |
| N. | Singer/actor who played Mingo on 1960s TV (2 wds.) | EDAMES |
| O. | Linguistic source for "chocolate" and "tomato" | NAHUATL |
| P. | State named for people driven out of it | IOWA |
| Q. | Monarch who awarded Walter Raleigh a royal charter for exploration (1584) | ELIZABETH |
| R. | Pre-Columbian ax, adz or arrowhead, e.g. | NEOLITH |
| S. | Pompous, petty tyrant (2 wds.) | TINGOD |
| T. | Like most residents of Nunavut | INUIT |
| U. | Joseph Conrad novel about an Italian seaman in South America | NOSTROMO |
| V. | Scattered over a large area | DIFFUSE |
| W. | Locale for Panama or Seattle | ISTHMUS |
| X. | Study of a body's construction | ANATOMY |
| Y. | Upper part of a region | NORTHLAND |