Embracing Fry Bread

Acknowledgments

1. First, a Story

2. Introduction

3. A Beginning

4. Beyond the Handgame

5. History, Long and Short

6. Who Are We?

7. The Call of Curiosity, Keep the Change

8. Enter the Wannabes

9. What's in a Name

10. Who Is "The Indian"?

11. Who Is the Wannabe?

12. The Contrary Lesson of the Prime Directive

13. First Steps

14. The Fix Is Out

15. Indian Wannabes

16. Gottabes

17. Becoming New

18. How It Goes, How It Went

19. The Plot Thickens

20. Why?

21. Gottabes Again

22. The Ways of Foodways

23. Carnivores Forever

24. Another World

25. The Consequences of Incuriosity

26. Symbols and Realities

27. Indian Humor

28. Names and Naming

29. The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger of 1877

30. Names . . . and Names

31. Matters of Faith

32. Deduction/Induction

33. What Is Indian Religion?

34. The Sun Dance

35. The Native Church

36. Inside Native Religion

37. Knowing What We Don't Know

38. What History Teaches Us

39. The Empty Frontier

40. Indians Today

41. Indians as Americans

42. The Land

43. The Real Wonder of It

44. Eloquence

45. From Presumed Inferiority to Rampant Egalitarianism

46. Time

47. Property and Gifts

48. The Gift of Giving

49. The Fabric of Sharing

50. The Spirit of Giving

51. Squaring the Circle

52. So, How Different Are We?

53. What We See

54. Indians and Deeper Truths

55. Conclusions

56. Repositories of Wisdom

57. What's in It for Indians?

58. So You Wannabe a Wannabe?