A child is born: Winnebago birthing, naming, and adoption ; Flathead-Salish childbirth ; The naming feast ; Flathead-Salish naming customs ; Chippewa life cycle ; Parents and children ; Early childhood among the Flathead-Salish ; Life cycle among the Plains Cree -- Growing up outdoors: Training of a Flathead-Salish girl ; Omaha care and training of children ; Education among the Flathead-Salish ; Ancestral embers ; Childhood among the Plains Cree ; Gros Ventres childhood -- Initiations to tribal mysteries: A Winnebago boy's initiation ; Poor Wolf joins a Hidatsa boy's society ; Daughters of Ponca chiefs ; A girl joins a Mandan women's society ; Fasting customs among Winnebago children ; Omaha ceremony to honor a young girl ; Children of the Iruska ; A Sioux boy as Heyoka ; Clowns among the Crow tribe ; Hosteen Klah : boy medicine man of the Navajo -- Staying alive: My Indian grandmother ; An Omaha boy gets native doctoring ; A Hidatsa childhood in the 1860s ; Childhood quotes ; Goodbird is nearly drowned ; The Pawnee girl who saved a prisoner ; Riding a dog travois ; Games played by Omaha children ; A Taos schoolboy at home for the summer ; Chippewa government of children -- Finding a mate ; Omaha marriage customs ; Winnebago marriage customs ; Sioux maiden's feast ; Hidatsa courting customs ; Courting at the corn harvest ; Courting in Sioux tipi camps ; Blackfoot tipi-creeping on the Canadian prairies ; Plains Cree customs ; Chippewa puberty customs -- Some childhood stories: A typical summer day for a Hidatsa boy ; Childhood memories of Willie Eagle Plume ; The debut of Aloyasius ; The return ; Little-Joe's back home ; The conversion of a dozen young Hopis ; Little Taos boy at a dance ; A Sun Dance child of the Blackfeet -- Tales for the fireside: Manitoshaw, the hunting girl ; The poor turkey girl ; Coyote and the fawn's stars ; Coyote and crow ; Blackfoot legends : Napi and the Great Spirit ; Napi makes buffalo laugh ; Napi and the elk skull ; Origin of names among the Cherokees ; Why the turkey is bald ; The simple happiness of a Navajo girl