Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Indigenous Arts of North America Art History and Native Art; What is 'Art'? Western Discourses and Native American Objects; Modes of Appreciation: Curiosity, Specimen, Artefact, and Art; What is an Indian? Clan, Community, Political Structure, and Art; Cosmology; The Map of the Cosmos; The Nature of Spirit; Dreams and the Vision Quest; Shamanism; Art and the Public Celebration of Power; The Power of Personal Adornment; 'Creativity is our Tradition': Innovation and Tradition in Native American Art; Gender and the Making of Art Chapter 2: The Southwest The Southwest as a Region; The Ancient World; From the Colonial Era to the Modern Pueblos; Navajo and Apache Arts Chapter 3: The East The East as a Region; Hunting Cultures, Burial Practices, and Early Woodlands Art Forms; Mississippian Art and Culture; The Cataclysm of Contact: the Southeast; The Early Contact Period in the Northeast; Arts of the Middle Ground; Arts of Self-Adornment Chapter 4: The West Introduction; The Great Plains; The Intermontaine Regionan Artistic Crossroads; The Far West: Arts of California and the Great Basin Chapter 5: The North Geography, Environment, and Language in the North; Sub-Arctic Clothing: Art to Honour and Protect; The Arctic Chapter 6: The Northwest Coast Origins; The Early Contact Period; Styles and Techniques; Western Connoisseurship and Northwest Coast Art; Shamanism; Crest Art; The Potlatch; Art, Commodity, and Concepts of Replication; Northwest Coast Art in the Twentieth Century Chapter 7: The Twentieth Century: Trends in Modern Native Art Questions of Definition; Commoditization and Contemporary Art; Moments of Beginning; The Southern Plains and the Kiowa Five; The Southwest and the 'Studio' Style; The Display and Marketing of American Indian Art: Exhibitions, Mural Projects, and Competitions; Native American Modernisms 195080; Institutional Frameworks and Modernisms in Canada; Postmodernism, Installation, and other Post-Studio Art Notes List of Illustrations Bibliographic Essay Timeline Index.