| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第10-20页 |
| 1.1 N. Scott Momaday and House Made of Dawn | 第10-13页 |
| 1.2 Literature review | 第13-18页 |
| 1.3 Aim and structure of this thesis | 第18-20页 |
| 2. American Indians'Spiritual Crisis | 第20-28页 |
| 2.1 Estrangement from native culture | 第20-22页 |
| 2.2 Alienation of the internal relationship among the Indians | 第22-23页 |
| 2.3 Social exclusion in the white world | 第23-28页 |
| 3. Reasons for American Indians' Spiritual Crisis | 第28-36页 |
| 3.1 Racial discrimination | 第28-33页 |
| 3.2 Lacking sense of community | 第33-36页 |
| 4. Coping Strategies for Spiritual Crisis | 第36-52页 |
| 4.1 Searching for Indian traditions to inherit native culture | 第36-40页 |
| 4.2 Establishing national identity to cultivate sense of community | 第40-44页 |
| 4.3 Employing the strategy of hybridity and harmony to disrupt binary opposition between white world and Indian world | 第44-52页 |
| 4.3.1 Accepting hybridity between white culture and Indian culture | 第45-48页 |
| 4.3.2 Accepting harmony between American Whites and American Indians | 第48-52页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-56页 |
