Pt. 1. Ancient America. The Indians old world: Native Americans and the coming of Europeans / Neal Salisbury ; Nanih Waiya, the sacred mound of the Choctaws / H.S. Halbert ; Legend of Nanih Wayah / Muriel Hazel Wright
pt. 2. First encounters. The Anglo-Algonquian gender frontier / Kathleen M. Brown ; Castaęda's history of the expedition / Pedro de Castañeda of Náxera ; Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 / Samuel de Champlain
pt. 3. International diplomacy and cultural exchange. Dressing for success on the Mohawk frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian fashion / Timothy J. Shannon ; Excerpts from the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 ; Witham Marshe's journal of the treaty held with the Six Nations by the commissioners of Maryland, and other provinces, at Lancaster
pt. 4. Cherokee removal. Evidence of surplus production in the Cherokee Nation prior to removal / David M. Wishart ; Excerpts from census roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians east of the Mississippi ; Three excerpts from The Cherokee Phoenix
pt. 5. Sacred places. The sacred Black Hills: an ethnohistorical review / Linea Sundstrom ; Land of the spotted eagle / Luther Standing Bear ; The sixth grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt / Raymon J. DeMallie
pt. 6. Boarding schools. "Hm! White boy! You got no business here!" / K. Tsianina Lomawaima ; Supplemental report on Indian education / Thomas J. Morgan ; Education of the American Indian / Henry Roe Cloud
pt. 7. Red Power. Remembering Alcatraz: twenty-five years after / Troy Johnson and Joane Nagel ; Alcatraz, activism, and accommodation / Vine Deloria, Jr. ; Mankiller: a chief and her people / Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis.
