Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 First, a Story 1
2 Introduction 6
3 A Beginning 16
4 Beyond the Handgame 19
5 History, Long and Short 25
6 Who Are We? 28
7 The Call of Curiosity, Keep the Change 30
8 Enter the Wannabes 35
9 What's in a Name 39
10 Who Is "The Indian"? 43
11 Who Is the Wannabe? 47
12 The Contrary Lesson of the Prime Directive 54
13 First Steps 56
14 The Fix Is Out 59
15 Indian Wannabes 63
16 Gottabes 66
17 Becoming New 74
18 How It Goes, How It Went 75
19 The Plot Thickens 78
20 Why? 81
21 Gottabes Again 83
22 The Ways of Foodways 86
23 Carnivores Forever. 92
24 Another World 95
25 The Consequences of Incuriosity 99
26 Symbols and Realities 103
27 Indian Humor 105
28 Names and Naming 114
29 The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger of 1877 117
30 Names … and Names 119
31 Matters of Faith 121
32 Deduction/Induction 123
33 What Is Indian Religion? 128
34 The Sun Dance 131
35 The Native Church 135
36 Inside Native Religion 142
37 Knowing What We Don't Know 145
38 What History Teaches Us 147
39 The Empty Frontier 157
40 Indians Today 162
41 Indians as Americans 166
42 The Land 173
43 The Real Wonder of It 178
44 Eloquence 180
45 From Presumed Inferiority to Rampant Egalitarianism 184
46 Time 187
47 Property and Gifts 191
48 The Gift of Giving 194
49 The Fabric of Sharing 197
50 The Spirit of Giving 200
51 Squaring the Circle 205
52 So, How Different Are We? 213
53 What We See 218
54 Indians and Deeper Truths 220
55 Conclusions 227
56 Repositories of Wisdom 233
57 What's in It for Indians? 240
58 So You Wannabe a Wannabe? 243