Introduction: the unknowable known past / Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo
Poem: Dialogue with sons of the sun / Richard Ray Whitman
Part I. Reclaiming space through presence-making
1. Remembering our ancestors: photographing Mission San Gabriel's cemetery / Yve Chavez
2. The aftermath: visualizing genocide / Stephen Gilchrist
3. Sámi Dáiddamusea is not a metaphor / Jeremie McGowan and Anne Mae Olli
4. Maria Hupfield's Nine years towards the sun: reflections of place and spatiality in performative art practice / Michelle Lanteri
Part II. Control of historical resources, reappropriation 5. Owning hate, owning hurt: the aesthetics of violence in American Indian contemporary art / Nancy Marie Mithlo
6. Translations/reanimations/presences: Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project and the remaking of Umo'ho' archives / Emily Voelker
7. Probing the surface: artist Chris Pappan's material and conceptual work with ledger art / Iris Colburn
8. Marwin Begaye: End of the trail as Native humor / Nancy Marie Mithlo
Part III. Embodiment and performance
9. Emily Arthur-final determinations: "Cherokee by blood" / Nancy Marie Mithlo in conversation with artist Emily Arthur
10. Dying to know you: critical insights from a case study of Indigenous representations in museums of the early republic / Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
11. Oklahome / T. Christopher Aplin and Nancy Marie Mithlo
12. Richard Ray Whitman: Street chiefs revisited / Nancy Marie Mithlo.