Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Margins
Headlands Journal
Before and Behind Me
Transcribing
Essentialism
History's Midst
Hoping to Hear
Chant
Be
In the Moment Before
For Now It's Enough: Late Night at ARA House: Thank God
Seed
Not by Any Chance
The Spring
It Didn't Matter
II. Images
"Being Poor" and Powerless. And Refusing Again
Anthropology of American Scholars: Notes, That Is
Back East. But When? Where? What? Who?
Histories, Places, Indians, Just Like Always
The Law
Welcome to America the Mall
What Indians?
Strange
Not Somewhere Else
Greatest Believers Greatest Disbelievers
"Indians" Wanted
Believing the Belief
Even "the Indians" Believed
What We Know
Always Just Like You Just Like Me
III. Gifts
To Plant Again
Your Eternity
A Picture
A Gift to Give and Receive
Their Gift
Epic
Telling and Showing Her
Sparrows
Our Children Will Not Be Afraid
For the Children
Always the Song
Rain
Waiting for a Friend
The Laughing Horse
IV. Horizons
Not Knowing and Knowing
The Prairie's Song
Blue Whale, the Largest Living Animal I've Never Seen
Look to the Mountain
Mountains All Around
Acoma Poems
Land and Stars, the Only Knowledge
Beauty All Around: A Moment on the Lakota Prairie
Getting Ready
Culture and the Universe
Making Quiltwork
More Than Just a River
V. Ever
Consternation
In EI Paso Many Birthdays Ago
Tsegi Canyon
By the Cottonwood
Hunting for Stones
No Weather Map
Kite
What I Know
Light
February and Violet
Thursday, March 3, 1994
Pause: Yours: Ours
Admitting
Eagle Wing
Flagstaff Notes
VI. Connections After All
Beginning and Ending Song: Part 1
Nothing but Eternity
Busted Boy
Mutant and Wise
Past Poems
The Best Movies
Time as Memory as Story
Just Call It Smiling for Victory
Beginning and Ending Song: Part 2