Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Preface and Editorial Principles
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Activist Writing and Journalism
Selections from "What the Curious Want to Know"
A Very Grave Error
About the Cherokees
Indian Land Selection
The Choctaw People
Do Not Want Them
Among the Full-Bloods: Part II. Indians of Oklahoma
Will the Indian Girl Solve the Servant Question?
Indian Department: The Object of the Indian Department
Three Indian Writers of Prominence
Indian Department: The Story of a War Chief's Medal

Traditions of the Cherokees
Cherokee Mythology
Indian Proverbs
Indian Wit and Wisdom
Indian Tales between Pipes
When the Cowboy Reigned
The Dying of the Council Fires
Great Work of an Indian
Father of 90,000 Indians
The Indian Orphan
Modern Mistress Lo
Daughters of Confederacy
Five Minutes with Paderewski Changed My Life
Short Fiction
A Face at the Window
A Pair of Moccasins
Her Thanksgiving Visit: The Story of a Thanksgiving Spent by Two Strangers in the Indian Territory
Aunt Mary's Christmas Dinner
Her Mother's Daughter

Only an Indian Girl
Lucy and I as Missionaries
The Fate of Starry Eyes . . . The Story of an Indian Maid
The Honor of Wynoma: A Thanksgiving Story by a Cherokee Girl
A Christmas Legend
Billy Bearclaws, Aid to Cupid
Poetry
How Doth He?
Ho Hum!
Night Noises
Cowboy Philosophy
The Farmer's Wife Tries Optimism
Tornado
Nature's Example
The Mother-Heart
Love's Inspiration
Memory
To One Bereaved
A Little Girl Dreams
Thirteen's So Very Hard to Be!
Sturdy Little Fellow
To Mary
Fantasy in Feathers
Drama

The Success of a Charity Concert: A Christmas Play for Amateurs
Night Brings Out the Stars
Children's Literature and Novel
Selections from "For the Little Chiefs and Their Sisters"
Where the Big Woods Beckon: A Juvenile Story
Afterword
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Notes
Bibliography of Eddleman Reed Works
Bibliography of Works Consulted
Index