Foreword : "not recognized by the tribe" / Sharon P. Holland
Preface : eating out of the same pot? / Tiya Miles
Acknowledgements
Introduction : crossing waters, crossing worlds / Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland
A harbor of sense : an interview with Joy Harjo / Eugene B. Redmond
An/other case of New England underwriting : negotiating race and property in Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge / Jennifer D. Brody and Sharon P. Holland
Race and federal recognition in native New England / Tiffany M. McKinney
Where will the nation be at home? race, nationalisms, and emigration movements in the Creek nation / David A.Y.O. Chang
In their "native country" : freedpeople's understandings of culture and citizenship in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations / Barbara Krauthamer
"Blood and money" : the case of Seminole freedmen and Seminole Indians in Oklahoma / Melinda Micco
"Playing Indian"? the selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation, 1997-1998 / Celia E. Naylor
"Their hair was curly" : Afro-Mexicans in Indian villages, central Mexico, 1700-1820 / Deborah E. Kanter
Lone Wolf and Du Bois for a new century : intersections of Native American and African American literatures / Robert Warrior
Native Americans, African Americans, and the space that is America : Indian presence in the fiction of Toni Morrison / Virginia Kennedy
Knowing all of my names / Tamara Buffalo
After the death of the last : performance as history in Monique Mojica's Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots / Wendy S. Walters
Katimih o sa chata kiyou (why am I not Choctaw)? race in the lived experiences of two Black Choctaw mixed-bloods / Robert Keith Collins
From ocean to O-Shen : reggae, rap, and hip hop in Hawai'i / Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui
Heartbreak / Roberta J. Hill
Afterword / Robert Warrior.