CONTENTS

  1. Cover Image
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Introduction
    1. Reflections
    2. Guided Wanderings
  6. Chapter 1. Bozho, Bonjour, Hello, Dear Reader
  7. Chapter 2. The Awakening
  8. Chapter 3. Before the Awakening
  9. Chapter 4. Pathways to Knowing
  10. Chapter 5. What Coy-Wolf Taught Me
    1. The First Coy-Wolf Visitation
    2. Observations and Reflections on Coy-Wolf
    3. The Story of Coy-Wolf: Visitations and Reflections Become Myth
  11. Chapter 6. The Nexus of Time
    1. Grandfather’s Watch
  12. Chapter 7. Roots Connect in Vieux Montréal
  13. Chapter 8. Encounters with Kateri Tekakwitha
    1. First Encounters
    2. An Enigma Wrapped in Competing Narratives
    3. A Window on the Human Condition
    4. A Counternarrative
    5. Je suis une personne abductée; nous sommes tous des personnes abductées
    6. From Stumbling Pathfinder to Visionary Leader
    7. Path to Sainthood
    8. Welcome Visitations and Guides
    9. The Canadian Lily of the Mohawk
  14. Chapter 9. Asa’s Indian School Story
  15. Chapter 10. Reflections on Warrior Culture
    1. Making Peace with the Warriors
  16. Chapter 11. Decolonizing Powwows
    1. Position, Status, and the Sacred in Native American Pageantry
    2. Postscript
  17. Chapter 12. The Re-creation Story
  18. Chapter 13. Koo-koo-o-koo and the Bear Moon
    1. Asa’s Un-Wounding
  19. Chapter 14. Awakenings on the Reservation
  20. Chapter 15. Rootless in the Botanical Garden
    1. Butterflies Go Free
    2. Uprooted Indigenous Culture
  21. Chapter 16. Toward a Newly Re-spirited Environmentalism
    1. Trapped in the Stories We Tell Ourselves
    2. The Limits of Reason
    3. Anthropocene, Ecocene, and the Unseen
    4. Partnering with Mother Earth
    5. Fam Jam Café
  22. Chapter 17. Microbes and Black Swans
  23. Conclusion. Untangling Threads of Historical Narrative
    1. Longue durée
    2. The White Man’s Imaginary
  24. Glossary of Indian Words
  25. Footnotes
  26. Endnotes
  27. Bibliography
  28. About the Author
  29. About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
  30. Books of Related Interest
  31. Copyright & Permissions
  32. Index