Introduction / Susan Lobo
Path to the Milky Way Leads through Los Angeles / Joy Harjo
Pt. I. Overview of Urbanism
Introduction / Susan Lobo
Ch. 1. Urban Tradition among Native Americans / Jack D. Forbes
Two Worlds / Dugan Aguilar
Ch. 2. Telling the Indian Urban: Representations in American Indian Fiction / Carol Miller
Coyote as a Simple Man / L. Frank Manriquez
Ch. 3. Yaqui Cultural and Linguistic Evolution through a History of Urbanization / Octaviana V. Trujillo
Pt. II. Structuring and Dynamics of Urban Communities
Introduction / Susan Lobo
Ch. 4. Is Urban a Person or a Place?: Characteristics of Urban Indian Country / Susan Lobo
Ch. 5. Retribalization in Urban Indian Communities / Terry Straus and Debra Valentino
Ch. 6. And the Drumbeat Still Goes On ... Urban Indian Institutional Survival into the New Millennium / Joan Weibel-Orlando
Cities / Carter Revard and Nompewathe
Ch. 7. Continuing Identity: Laguna Pueblo Railroaders in Richmond, California / Kurt M. Peters
Ch. 8. Feminists or Reformers? American Indian Women and Community in Phoenix, 1965-1980 / Paivi Hoikkala
Metropolitan Indian Series #1 / Hulleah Tsinhnahjinne
Derek and Peter Discuss the Pro's Con's of City Life / L. Frank Manriquez
Ch. 10. Urban Platform for Advocating Justice: Protecting the Menominee Forest / David R. M. Beck
Pt. III. Individuals and Families in Urban Contexts
Introduction / Susan Lobo
Ruby Roast / Esther Belin
Ch. 11. Urban (Trans)Formations: Changes in the Meaning and Use of American Indian Identity / Angela A. Gonzales
Ironworker I & Ironworker II / Pena Bonita
Ch. 12. "This Hole in Our Heart": The Urban-Raised Generation and the Legacy of Silence / Deborah Davis Jackson
Living Room of an Indian Family in the San Francisco Bay Area: Mantelpiece & Girl Watching T.V. / John Collier, Jr.
Quiet Desperation / Floyd Red Crow Westerman and Jimmy Curtiss
Ch. 13. Weaving Andean Networks in Unstable Labor Markets / Alex Julca
Poem Maybe for Tina Deschenie / Michael Thompson
Kokopeli Gigging in the City / Larry Rodriguez, Sr
Ch. 14. Red Wit in the City: Urban Indian Comedy / Darby Lipo Price
Indian Pride / Mike Rodriguez
Ch. 15. Healing through Grief: Urban Indians Reimagining Culture and Community / Renya Ramirez
Red White & Blue / Chris Lamarr
Youngest Trapper on 7th Street / Pena Bonita
Ch. 16. Downtown Oklahoma City - 1952 / Victoria Bomberry
Letter Home / Edgar Jackson / Anawrok
Ch. 17. Rejection and Belonging in Addiction and Recovery: Four Urban Indian Men in Milwaukee / Christine T. Lowery
Excerpt from a Work in Progress / Parris Butler
Mattie Goes Traveling / Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie.