Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-142) and index.

Foreword : From the land, gifts of the spirit / by Charles E. Little -- The conquest of Emerald Peak : San Carlos Apache -- The songs of Arlecho : Lummi -- Bear's lodge : Plains tribes -- The repatriation of Blue Lake and Sandia : Taos and Sandia -- An ill wind on Nch'I-Wána : Yakama, Cascade-Klikitat -- Another horn of the buffalo : Lakota, Northern Cheyenne -- Growing up sacred / an essay by Paula Gunn Allen -- Keeping a place for prayer : Ahjumawi (Pit river) -- River of Life : Northern Cheyenne -- Treacherous mountains : Crow -- A heritage impounded : Chumash -- A tale fo two mountains : Navajo -- Badger-two medicine : Blackfeet -- Let the spirit flow : Snoqualmie -- Rehearsals for rain : Hopi, Navajo -- Sacred places of the heart and soul / an essay by Rennard Strickland -- The preference of the White Clay People : Gros Ventre, Assiniboine -- A place of reverence : Cochiti, Jemez, Santa Ana, Sandia, Zia Pueblos -- The God of the Waters : Mendota -- The price of the sacred : Chemehuevi -- Time is running out / an essay by James Parks Morton -- Postscript : Toward a sacred lands policy initiative -- appendix : Organizations concerned with sacred lands -- Contributors -- An appreciation -- Picture credits -- The Sacred Land Film Project -- Selected further reading -- Index.