pt. 1. Keeping the home fires burning in urban circles. To carry the fire home / Kathryn Lucci-Cooper
Blood flowing in two worlds / Mary Black Bonnet
Home : urban and reservation / Barbara Helen Hill
Indian in a strange land / Wiley Steve Thornton
Everyone needs someone / MariJo Moore
Unci (Grandmother) / Ben Geobe
From Brooklyn to the reservation : five poems / Maurice Kenny
pt. 2. Young American Indians : the need to reclaim identity. The genocide of a generation's identity / Gabriel Horn
We, the people : young American Indians reclaiming their identity / Lee Francis
Indians in the attic / Joel Waters
America's urban youth and the importance of remembering / Dave Stephenson
pt. 3. Native languages : where will they go from here? Song, poetry, and language : expression and perception / Simon J. Ortiz
X. Alatsep (written down) / Joseph Dandurand
Don't talk, don't live / Carol Snow Moon Bachofner
Iah enionkwatewennahton'se' : we will not lose our words / James Aronhiotas Stevens
The spirit of language / Neil McKay
A different rhythm / H. Lee Karalis
Names by which the spirits know us / Sean Lee Fahrlander
pt. 4. Indians as mascots : an issue to be resolved. Symbolic racism, history, and reality : the real problem with Indian mascots / Kimberly Roppolo
Indian as mascots : perpetuating the stereotype / Alfred Young Man
Invisible emblems : empty words and sacred honor / Steve Russell
pt. 5. Who we are, who we are not : memories, misconceptions, and modifications. Yellow Woman and a beauty of the spirit / Leslie Marmon Silko
She's nothing like we thought / Molly McGlennen
Manitowac : spirit place in Anishinaabe / Tim Hays
Pyramids, art, museum, and bones : some brief memories / David Bunn Martine
Identification pleas / Eric Gansworth
Raising the American Indian community house / Mifaunwy Shunatona Hines
The secret of breathing / Steve Elm
The Indians are alive / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
"Indians," solipsisms, and archetypal holocausts / Paula Gunn Allen
Buffalo medicine : an essay and a play / David Seals
Postcolonial hyperbaggage : a few poems of resistance and survival / Carter Revard
About American Indian Artists, Inc. / Diane Fraher.
