Contents -- Editor's Note on Chief Seathl's Speech -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Red Road, Red Lake-Red Flag! (Four Arrows) -- Introduction. (Four Arrows) -- CHAPTER 1. Happiness and Indigenous Wisdom in the History of the Americas (Frank Bracho) -- CHAPTER 2. Adventures in Denial: Ideological Resistance to the Idea that the Iroquois Helped Shape American Democracy (Bruce E. Johansen) -- CHAPTER 3. Burning Down the House: Laura Ingalls Wilder and American Colonialism (Waziyatawin Angela Cavender Wilson) -- CHAPTER 4. (Post) Colonial Plainsongs: Toward Native Literary Worldings (Jodi A. Byrd) -- CHAPTER 5. Conquest Masquerading as Law (Vine Deloria Jr.) -- CHAPTER 6. Traditional Native Justice: Restoration and Balance, Not "Punishment" (Rudy Al James (ThlauGooYailthThlee- The First and Oldest Raven)) -- CHAPTER 7. Where Are Your Women?: Missing in Action (Barbara Alice Mann) -- CHAPTER 8. Peaceful Versus Warlike Societies in Pre-Columbian America: What Do Archaeology and Anthropology Tell Us? (James DeMeo) -- CHAPTER 9. Ecological Evidence of Large-Scale Silviculture by California Indians (Lee Klinger) -- CHAPTER 10. Preserving the Whole: Principles of Sustainability in Mi'kmaw Forms of Communication (Trudy Sable) -- CHAPTER 11. The Language of Conquest and the Loss of the Commons (Chet Bowers) -- CHAPTER 12. Overcoming Hegemony in Native Studies Programs (Devon A. Mihesuah) -- CHAPTER 13. The Question of Whitewashing in American History and Social Science (David N. Gibbs) -- CHAPTER 14. Before Predator Came: A Plea for Expanding First Nations Scholarship as European Shadow Work (David Gabbard) -- CHAPTER 15. Roy Rogers, Twin Heroes, and the Christian Doctrine of Exclusive Salvation (Four Arrows) -- CHAPTER 16. Western Science and the Loss of Natural Creativity (Gregory Cajete).

CHAPTER 17. On the Very Idea of "A Worldview" and of "Alternative Worldviews" (Bruce Wilshire) -- Epilogue. Four Arrows -- APPENDIX. Essays from The Encyclopedia of American Indian History (Four Arrows) -- Index.