Part one: Literature
1. In other's words: literature and community
2. Trickster among the wordies: the work of Gerald Vizenor
3. Venus on the half-shell? Why not?
4. Remnants of the first earth: a review
5. An Übermensch among the Apache: or, Karl May's tour of the Grand Teutons
6. Clowns and villains: American natives and the American musical
7. Innocents abroad: or, Smilla has a sense of snow, but our Kanawakes are in Egypt
8. Hell and highwater
9. Original simplicities and present complexities: Reinhold Niebuhr, ethnocentrism, and the myth of American exceptionalism
Part two: Law
10. Indian presence with no Indians present: NAGPRA and its discontents
11. Losing my religion: native American traditions and American religious freedom
12. Triangulated power and the environment: tribes, the Federal government, and the states
13. Scaling Ríos Montt: indigenous peoples, international human rights, and the Pinochet case
Part three: Culture
14. It came from outer space: of museums, meteorites, and messengers of the Gods
15. Native reformation in Indian country? Forging a relevant spiritual identity among Indian Christians
16. A biblical paradigm for native liberation
17. Trickster: the sacred fool
18. Reaching beyond language: native American eschatology and Apocalyptic Messianism
19. From I-Hermeneutics to We-Hermeneutics: native Americans and the post-colonial.