Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. BROKEN
7. 1. Seeking to Be Whole 19
8. 2. Bringing Back a Piece of the Sky 36
9. 3. Chahta hattak sia , “I Am a Choctaw Man” 52
10. PART II. AN INDIAN EDUCATION
11. 4. Nihalgai Bahane’, A Fourth-World Story 69
12. 5. Bracelets Upon My Soul 85
13. 6. My Journey to Healing 100
14. PART III. FULL CIRCLE
15. 7. Little Woman from Lame Deer 117
16. 8. Village Girl 137
17. 9. Future Ancestor 151
18. 10. An Unpredictable Journey 172
19. PART IV. CONTINUING EDUCATION
20. 11. I Walk in Beauty 191
21. 12. The Good Ol’ Days When Times Were Bad 219
22. 13. Why Didn’t You Teach Me? 243
23. Notes 273
24. About the Editors and Author of the Foreword 277