Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Editing a Gros Ventre (White Clay) Text -- Gros Ventre text: The Gros Ventres Go to War -- Redacting Premodern Texts without Speakers: the Peoria Story of Wiihsakacaakwa -- Peoria text: Wiihsakacaakwa Aalhsoohkaakani (Wiihsakacaakwa Story) -- Editing and Using Arapaho-Language Manuscript Sources: A Comparative Perspective -- Arapaho texts: -- A Name-Changing Prayer -- Nih'oo3oo and His Friend the Beaver Catcher: Diving through the Ice -- Highlighting Rhetorical Structure through Syntactic Analysis: An Illustrated Meskwaki Text by Alfred Kiyana -- Meskwaki text: A Man Who Fasted Long Ago -- Three Nineteenth-Century Munsee Texts: Archaisms, Dialect Variation, and Problems of Textual Criticism -- Munsee Delaware texts: -- A Youth and His Uncle -- Moshkim -- Origin Myth -- On Editing Bill Leaf's Meskwaki Texts -- Meskwaki text: Bill Leaf's Story of Red-Leggins -- Challenges of Editing and Presenting the Corpus of Potawatomi Stories Told by Jim and Alice Spear to Charles Hockett -- Potawatomi text: Jejakos Gigabé (Crane Boy) -- The Words of Black Hawk: Restoring a Long-Ignored Bilingual -- Sauk text: The Nekanawîni ('My Words') of Mahkatêwimeshikêhkêhkwa -- Contributors -- Index.