| Preface | v |
| Introduction | xiii |
Part I | The Indian in Prehistoric America | |
I | The Aboriginal Pioneer | 3 |
II | Rise of the Stone Boilers | 12 |
III | The Farmers and the Potters | 20 |
IV | The Builders | 28 |
| Aboriginal Apartment Houses | |
V | The Coming of the Grand Pipe | 37 |
Part II | The Great Indian Families | |
VI | The Great Indian Families | 52 |
VII | The Grand Old Algonkin Family | 55 |
| How the Algonkin Lived | |
| Dress and Fashions | |
| The Powwow | |
| Fate of the Atlantic Tribes | |
| Wars in New England | |
| Retreat of the Delaware | |
VIII | The Old Northwest | 73 |
| Pontiac's War | |
| The Last Stand | |
| The War of 1812 | |
| Keokuk and Black Hawk | |
IX | The Western Buffalo Hunters | 85 |
| The Blackfoot Group | |
| The Arapaho and the Cheyenne | |
X | The Northern and Western Algonkin | 96 |
| The Naskapi | |
| The Tribes of the Great Lakes | |
| The California Stragglers | |
| Possible Relatives | |
| The Salish | |
| Algonkin Characteristics | |
XI | The Iroquois Family | 109 |
| The League of the Six Nations | |
| The Huron | |
| The Erie | |
| The Susquehanna and the Tuscarora | |
| A Quarrel with the Pawnee | |
| How the Six Nations Lived | |
| The Mingo and Chief Logan | |
| Cornplanter | |
| Red Jacket | |
| Joseph Brant | |
| The Cherokee | |
| The Cherokee Who Stayed Behind | |
| Sequoya | |
XII | The Family of the Caddo | 133 |
| Petalasharo the Reformer | |
| Life in Pawnee Villages | |
XIII | The Muskhogean Family | 141 |
| The Natchez | |
| The Choctaw and the Chickasaw | |
| The Seminole | |
XIV | The Siouan Family | 155 |
| The Dakota | |
| The Assiniboin | |
| How the Teton Lived | |
| History of the Eastern Dakota | |
| Waneta | |
| War with the United States | |
| History of the Teton | |
| The Great Depression | |
| The Hidatsa and the Crow | |
| The Mandan | |
| The Southern Siouans | |
| Some Distant Relatives | |
XV | The Penutian Families | 183 |
| The Californians | |
| The Modoc | |
| The Chinook | |
| The Nez Perce | |
| Chief Joseph | |
XVI | The Dene Family | 193 |
| The Totem-Pole Makers | |
| The Babiche People | |
| The Stragglers in the Plains | |
| The Apache | |
| The Navaho | |
XVII | The Uto-Aztecan Family | 213 |
| The Pueblo Villages | |
| The Kiowa and the Comanche | |
| The Ute | |
| The Diggers of the Desert | |
| The Pima | |
| Washakie and the Shoshoni | |
| Sacajawea, or Bird Woman | |
Part III | Indian Life in General | |
XVIII | The Indian Way of Life | 237 |
| Population Density | |
| Are the Indians Dying Out? | |
| The Daily Round of Life | |
| Woman's Work | |
| Indian Culture Areas | |
XIX | When the White Man Went Indian | 251 |
| The Indian as a Child of Nature | |
XX | Three Strange Gifts from the White Man | 257 |
| The Gun | |
| The Horse. Liquor | |
XXI | The Mystery of the Indian Mind | 270 |
XXII | Life on a Reservation | 281 |
XXIII | Did the Indian Live in Vain? | 292 |
| Publications on Indians | 298 |
| Appendix | 301 |
| Index | 307 |