Introduction: short history of American Indian historicity
1. Some dynamics of American Indian historicity
2. Within reach of memory - oral traditions, legends and history
3. Almost timeless truths - myth and history
4. Commentaries and subversions - memorates, jokes, tales and history
5. Anchoring the past in place - geography and history
6. Memories in things - material culture and Indian histories
7. Renewing, remembering and resisting - rituals and history
8. Old stories, new ways - writing, power and Indian histories
9. Futures of Indian pasts - prophecy and history.
