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pt. 1. Among the dog eaters -- Notes from Indian country -- After long silence Marilyn returns -- This is no movie of noble savages -- Palm Sunday in Pine Ridge -- A visit to my mother's grave -- At the Knight's Inn in Reno -- Raiding party -- Christmas carol for the severed head of Mangas Coloradas -- Dust world -- Among the dog eaters -- Petroglyphs and other voices -- Sunset at Pine Ridge Agency -- In the ghetto on the prairie there is unrequited love -- Elvis Presley in Pine Ridge -- The sweat lodge -- pt. 2. Unholy redemptions -- The hunter's blood quickens -- At a grave in an Eastern city -- At the house of ghosts -- Sometimes a warrior comes tired -- Verdell reports on his trip -- Burning trash one sober night -- Waylon Two Stars take his son rabbit hunting -- pt. 3. Tombstones -- An invoice for Her Many Horses on his hill overlooking Wounded Knee -- First day of the spring semester -- Friday night at White Clay -- A song for the Santee -- Tears of one hundred years : Wounded Knee, South Dakota 1890-1990 -- Before snow killed the fires : a fable for St. Valentine's Day -- Nevada red blues -- One morning near Larimer Street -- Skulduggery -- Song of the Messiah -- pt. 4. Coyote songs -- Coyote night -- Pyromania -- A funeral procession of one -- Splendaides -- Degrees of hydrophobia -- I tramp out -- America loomed before us -- The intellectual in Pine Ridge -- Journal entry on the eve of sobriety -- Grace, dignity, and a smashed Hitachi -- Clock-radio on the floor -- pt. 5. Postscripts -- A portrait of a couple living on the edge of existence -- On the Northern Plains -- Tumbleweed sex prayer -- Interlude : Delmar flies away -- At the burial of a ballplayer who died from diabetes -- Owl dream song : the eve of departure -- Breakfast at Big Bat's Conoco convenience store in Pine Ridge -- Red blues in a white town the day we bomb -- Iraqi women and children -- Small town noise.
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