Contents -- Prologue -- Traditional Origins -- The People Named the Chippewa -- Language and names -- Dreams and music -- Anthropological and historical inventions -- Woodland reservations -- Shadows at La Pointe -- Three Anishinaabeg Writers -- William Whipple Warren -- Kahgegagahbowh: George Copway -- Kahkewaquonaby: Peter Jones -- Old Crow Wing to White Earth -- Old Crow Wing -- White Earth Reservation -- Boarding School Remembrance -- Windmill at the federal school -- Hog cart at the mission school -- Geometric blood and untribal education -- Firewater Labels and Methodologies -- Dennis of Wounded Knee -- February 12, 1974 -- Leech Lake Reservation -- Washington to Wounded Knee -- The informer was a pilot -- Sanctuaries from vengeance -- The Shaman and Terminal Creeds -- Shamans and the clerks -- The burial of John Ka Ka Geesick -- Cora Katherine Sheppo -- Epilogue -- Bibliography: Books about the Anishinaabeg -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.