"Pictures courtesy of the Denver Art Museum. The publisher gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of Mr. Richard Conn, Curator of Native Arts, in helping select these pictures"--Colophon.

The living spirit of the Indian / by Standing Bear, Chief of the Oglala Sioux (1905-1939) -- The song of the stars (Algonquin) -- Song of the sky loom (Tewa) -- The creation of man (Navajo) -- The sower (Navajo) -- Song for the newborn (Pueblo) -- Song of the mockingbird (Yuma) -- Daybreak song (Navajo) -- The lights (Navajo) -- The planting song (Osage) -- Peboan and seegwum -- Wind song (Pima) -- Corn-grinding song (Zuñi) -- Harvest song (Navajo) -- Papago love songs -- Neither spirit nor bird (Shoshone) -- Algonquin love song -- Tule love song (Yaqui) -- The yielding heart (Yokut) -- Love charm / Theodora Kroeber -- Maiden's song (Navajo) -- Songs of Ojibway lovers -- A song of the deer ceremony (San Carlos Apache) -- Hunting song (Navajo) -- Hear my voice -- Lament of a man for his son -- Warrior's song -- Gifts of the gods (Navajo) -- Prayer (Zuñi) -- A Navajo prayer -- Medicines -- The legend of the sacred pipe -- Benedictory chant (Navajo) -- The new direction / by Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell -- The folding fan / by Grey Cohoe -- Red Eagle / by Janet Campbell -- Indian love letter / by Soge Track -- I am crying from thirst / by Alonzo Lopez -- Persimmon wine : a chorale for lonely people in the Osage Hills / by Winston Weathers.

American Indian paintings reproduced in compilation by named artists: Apache crown dance / Allan Houser -- Father Sky and Mother Earth / Edmund Tracy (Owi Po) -- Indian horses / Calvin Vigil -- Waayata (Sioux seer) / Oscar Howe -- Harvest dance / Awa Tsireh -- Her first dance / Pablita Velarde -- Buffalo and deer dance / Quah Ah -- Sioux eagle dancer / Oscar Howe -- Medicine bundle opening / Dick West -- Navaho patient / Beatien Yazz -- Shalako and mudheads / Awa Tsireh -- Peyote singers / Quayavema -- Choctaw ball dancers / Terry Saul -- Pictograph altar / Joe Herrera.