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.