Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vi
3. Shóogunáx
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. For the Translanguagers xiii
6. Gagaan X'oos
7. Coyote Song I 3
8. Woolnáx Wooshkák 4
9. Sable Voices 6
10. Irrational 7
11. Óosk'i Aa 8
12. Killer Whale Like a Person Sewing 10
13. Definition: Trickster 12
14. Shux'wáa Yoo X'atángi 15
15. Lovelike War 17
16. Earthquake Poems 19
17. Hounded by Wolves 20
18. Raven's Sugarbowl 22
19. Breath Like a Drum 23
20. Gagaan X'usyee
21. Coyote Song II 27
22. If Jesus Were a Basketball Player 28
23. The Old Lady with All the Money 29
24. The First Real Pain 31
25. When the Heart Skips a Beat 33
26. Earthquake Poems 34
27. For My Lawyer, My Banker, My Boss, and My Wife 35
28. Dreaming of My Time 36
29. Dear Father 37
30. Ax Tláa Ax Een Akanik Noojín 39
31. Du Goojí Yinaadé 40
32. Coyote Song III 42
33. Gagaan x'us.eetí
34. Coyote Song IV 45
35. Corbin James 46
36. Kuxdeinú 47
37. Tlaxaneis' 48
38. Onion Bay—Kodiak, Alaska 50
39. If Only in Dreams 51
40. Postcard to My Younger Self 52
41. And These Icy Waters 53
42. Earthquake Poems 54
43. Kéet Goosh Áwé Haa Daa Yéi Yatee 55
44. Walk through This World with Me 57
45. Gagaan Xanyádi
46. Coyote Song V 61
47. Cutting the Fog 62
48. Release 63
49. Dark Skin and the Betraying Uncle 64
50. Earthquake Poems 65
51. The Times and Ways It Goes 66
52. Nanook Sweats 68
53. X'áas 70
54. Ode to Tlingit 71
55. Kudé Kdagoot 75
56. Tlaxaneis' Shakeech'eení 78
57. Láx' Haa Kináa Wdikeen 79
58. The Many Cycles of Raven 81
59. The Long Walk 85
60. Homecoming 86
61. Coyote Song VI 88
62. Glossary 89
63. Translations
64. Little One 95
65. First Words 97
66. My Mother Used to Always Tell Me 99
67. That Is a Killer Whale Fin around Us 100
68. The Waterfall 102