Contents -- The Poetry of Participation: On the Work of Heid Erdrich, Dean Rader -- Acknowledgments -- I. Chimeras -- Thrifty Gene, Lucky Gene -- Brain Scan -- Mitochondrial Eve -- DNA Tribes -- Morrisseau Creatures from the Woodland Painters School -- Microchimerism -- Define Chimera -- Now, What Is She? -- Blood Chimera -- II. Cannibals -- Fur Trade Tokens -- Now, Where Was She? -- Wiindigo Pity -- Own Your Own: Cellular Changes -- Long Pig -- The Love that Dares -- Seven Mothers -- Tick Check -- Bestial -- Menu -- Embodied -- III. Tourists -- Indigenous Elvis at the Airport -- When They Find Each Other on Facebook -- Love Plot -- Little Souvenirs from the DNA Trading Post -- Thoughts of Kids Interrupt My Work -- Own Your Own: The Papergirl -- Just off the Highway -- Quiet Cupboard -- IV. Traffickers -- Upon Hearing of the Mormon DNA Collection -- Now, Where Was She, Too? -- Interrogated Self -- Traffic -- Sleeper -- Again, Today -- Cold Climate -- Two Sides -- Paint These Streets -- Uncollected Work (2006-2011) -- I. Prose Poems and Translations -- The Shapes We Make -- The Shapes We Make /Ezhi-Zhibiigeyaang /The Way We Write -- How We Walk -- How We Walk /Ezhi-bimoseyaang /The Way We Walk -- How We Talk -- How We Talk /Ezhi-gaagiigidoyaang /The Way We Talk -- How We Eat -- How We Eat /Ezhi-wiisiniyaang /The Way We Eat -- II. Prose Poems -- Preeminent Gooseberry Bakwezhiigan -- In House -- Dancer Origin Story -- Dancer in Twin Voices -- Utopia Hawk -- My Fetal Beatles or an Embryonic Education in Commune -- Indigenous Foods Allowed in Utopia -- Red Vines: Lines for Deloria -- III. Prose Originals -- Quiet Cupboard -- Two Sides -- Selected Work (1997-2008) -- from 'National Monuments' (2008) -- Guidelines for the Treatment of Sacred Objects -- Black and White Monument, Photo Circa 1977 -- Grand Portage -- Post-Barbarian -- Some Elsie.

In Search of Jane's Grave -- The Theft Outright -- Elsie Drops Off the Dry Cleaning -- Butter Maiden and Maize Girl Survive Death Leap -- The Lone Reader and Tonchee Fistfight in Pages -- Full Bodied Semi-Sestina -- Body Works -- Kennewick Man Tells All -- Kennewick Man Attempts Cyber-date -- Kennewick Man Swims Laps -- Prisoner No. 280 -- Vial -- Girl of Lightning -- from 'The Mother's Tongue' (2005) -- Offering: Words -- She Dances -- Stung -- This Body, The River -- The Deep -- Craving, First Month -- Offering: The Child -- Kookum -- First Rice -- What Pregnant Is Like -- Young Poets with Roman Noses -- Another Touch -- Nesting Dolls -- Craving Release -- Sisters Stay On the Other Side -- New Born -- Offering: Ojibwe -- Craving: Bitter Root -- Twin Bugs -- Vermillion Hands Petroglyph -- Our Words Are Not Our Own -- Poem for Our Ojibwe Names -- In the Belly -- Changeling -- Remedy -- Wiisah kote: The Burnt Wood People -- Basswood -- The Good Woman -- from 'Fishing for Myth' (1997) -- True Myth -- Breaking and Entering -- The Red River of the North -- Oxbow -- Rich Hour -- One Girl -- Human Map -- The Pond -- Fat in America -- That Green Night -- Flickers -- Sex in the Desert -- Hopi Prophet Chooses a Pop -- Wearing Indian Jewelry -- Turtle Rattle -- Translation -- Animoosh -- TV News: Detox Closed -- The Visible Woman -- Future Debris -- Sense -- Notes.