Contents -- Preface -- Native Cowboy Life -- PART I: SACRED BEINGS -- The First Horses -- Painted Pony -- Ãyahkwêw's Lodge -- Buffalo Woman Leads the Buffalo out of the Earth -- Coyote and Buffalo -- The End of the World: The Buffalo Go -- The Deer -- Coyote and Wood Tick -- Coyote -- Man's Best Friend -- The Dog Chief -- PART II: RANCHING LIFE -- Lonely Cowboy -- Allen Sapp -- Tried, True, and Tested -- At Wood Mountain We Are Still Lakota -- Women and the Ranching Life -- PART III: RODEO AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENT -- The Gambler's Son and Star Man -- Bronco Busters, Basket Makers, and a Brass Band -- The Menace of the Wild West Show -- Remembering Heroes -- He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo -- on the champ of '63 -- Indian Rodeo Cowboys of the Dakotas -- Down the Road ... -- References -- Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.