The psychology of Earth and sky / Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) -- Ethnoastronomy as the key to human intellectual development and social organization / Clara Sue Kidwell (Choctaw/Ojibwe) -- The power of Seneca women and the legacy of Handsome lake / John Mohawk (Seneca) -- The power of native languages and the performance of indigenous autonomy: the case of Mexico / Ine's Hernańdez-Ávila (Nez Percé/Chicana) -- The metaphysics of federal Indian law and U.S. colonialism of American Indians / M.A. Jaimes-Guerrero (Juaneño/Yaqui) -- From time immemorial: the origin and import of the reserved rights doctrine / David E. Wilkins (Lumbee) -- Vine Deloria, Jr., and the development of a decolonizing critique of indigenous peoples and international relations / Glenn T. Morris (Shawnee) -- International law and U.S. trust responsibility toward Native Americans / S. James Anaya (Purepecha/Apache) -- When God became red / Cecil Corbett (Nez Percé) -- Earth mother and prayerful children: sacred sites and religious freedom / Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne) -- Religious studies on the margins: decolonizing our minds / Michelene E. Pesantubbee (Choctaw) -- American Indian religious traditions, colonialism, resistance, and liberation / George E. Tinker (Osage/Cherokee) -- There is no such thing as a one-way land bridge / Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) -- Contours of enlightenment: reflections on science, theology, law, and the alternative vision of Vine Deloria, Jr. / Ward Churchill (Keetowah band of Cherokee) -- Transforming American conceptions about Native America: Vine Deloria, Jr., critic and coyote / Inés Talamantez (Apache/Chicana) -- Yuchi travels: up and down the academic "road to disappearance" / Richard A. Grounds (Yuchi/Seminole) -- The passage of generations / Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) -- Appendix: United Nations draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples (26 August 1994)