Introduction / Trish Fox Roman (Ojibway) -- "My moccasins have not walked" / Duke Redbird (Chippewa) -- A mountain legend / Jordan Wheeler (Cree) -- When I was thirteen / Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) -- Falling song / Daniel David Moses (Delaware) -- Loo-wit / Wendy Rose (Hopi-Miwok) -- An afternoon in bright sunlight / Shirley Scott-Bruised Head (Blackfoot) -- Sars's gift / Barbara Smith (Cherokee) -- Self-portrait: Microcosm, or, song of mixed-blood / Robert J. Conely (Cherokee) -- Gaal comes upriver / Mary TallMountain (Koyukon Athabascan) -- The hockey game / Wes Fine Day (Cree).
Reservation blues / Curtis "Shingoose" Jonnie (Ojibway) -- The powwow drum / David Campbell (Arawak) -- Coyoti lost in a city / Henry Michel (Shuswap) -- Charlie / Lee Maracle (Metis-West Coast Salish) -- I lost my talk / Rita Joe (Micmac) -- Your buildings / Rita Joe (Micmac) -- Nipikti the old man carver / Alootook Ipellie (Inuit) -- My father / Maria Campbell (Metis) -- Glooskap visits the king / Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) -- Reindeer herders / Alice French (Inuit) -- The old man's lazy / Peter Blue Cloud (Mohawk) -- We miss the bus / George Peequaquat (Saulteaux-Ojibway).
Now that the buffalo's gone / Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) -- The moose / Glen Cooper (Cree) -- Running Eagle--woman warrior of the Blackfeet / Beverly Hungry Wolf (Blood) -- What has happened to these working hands? / Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) -- The warriors / Anna Lee Walters (Pawnee-Otoe) -- Son of the sun / Willie Dunn (Micmac) -- The blue hand shield / Kim McLain (Cree) -- The pebble people / Roger Jack (Colville) -- Loss of the sky / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Crow Creek Sioux) -- Universal soldier / Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) -- Green grass, running water / Thomas King (Cherokee).
The leap / Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) -- Celebrating Christmas in Sandy / Tyance Fiddler (Cree) -- Combing / Gladys Cardiff (Cherokee) -- Homecooking / Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs-Wasco-Navajo) -- My father's song / Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) -- Artifacts / Frank Conibear (West Coast Salish) -- Grandfather bear / Earth Elder (Saulteaux) -- Moose to moccasins / Madeline Katt Theriault (Ojibway) -- The story of Payepot / Abel Watetch (Plains Cree) -- I'm making you up / Chrystos (Menominee) -- History lesson / Jeannette C. Armstrong (Okanagan) -- Weddings / Shirley Bear (Cree).
The last word / Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) -- Wesakachak and the geese / Jackson Beardy (Cree).
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