Part 1. Sacred lands and sacred places : God, squirrels, and the universe : the Mt. Graham International Observatory and the University of Arizona -- Salt, water, blood, and coal : mining in the southwest -- Klamath land and life -- Part 2. Ancestors, images, and our lives : Imperial anthropology : the ethics of collecting -- Quilled cradleboard covers, cultural patrimony, and Wounded Knee -- Vampires in the new world : blood, academia, and human genetics -- Masks in the new millennium -- Part 3. Seeds and medicine : Three sisters : recovery of traditional agriculture at Cayuga, Mohawk, and Oneida communities -- Wild rice : maps, genes, and patents -- Food as medicine : the recovery of traditional foods to heal the people -- Part 4. Relatives : Return of the horse nation -- Namewag : sturgeon and people in the Great Lakes region -- Recovering power to slow climate change.