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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction: How the West Was Lost | |
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| The Indian Peoples of the Plains | |
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| The Conquest of the Plains | |
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| The Reservations and the Era of Forced Acculturation | |
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| Native Responses and the Search for Hope | |
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| Voices and Visions | |
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| Lone Dog's Winter Count | |
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| Horses, Guns, and Smallpox | |
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| How the Blackfeet Got Horses, Guns, and Smallpox | |
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| Saukamappee, Memories of War and Smallpox, 1787-1788 | |
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| Howling Wolf: Trading Guns for Horses | |
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| "I Bring Death": The Kiowas Meet | |
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| Smallpox | |
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| Kiowa Legend | |
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| A Pawnee Vision of the Future | |
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| Sharitarish, "We Are Not Starving Yet," 1822 | |
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| The Life and Death of Four Bears | |
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| Four Bear's Buffalo Robe | |
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| Four Bears Kills a Cheyenne Chief | |
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| The Death Speech of Four Bears | |
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| Four Bears, Speech to the Arikaras and Mandans, July 30, 1837 | |
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| Counting Coups and Fighting for Survival | |
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| Account of Three Coyote's Expedition | |
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| Four Dancers, Three Coyotes Leads a Skirmish | |
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| Fighting for Crow Country | |
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| Arapooish, Speech on Crow Country | |
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| Two Leggings's Quest for Power | |
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| Two Leggings, The Dream and Reality of a Raid | |
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| A Woman's View of War | |
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| Pretty Shield, "Like Talking to Winter-Winds" | |
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| "The Only Way Open to Us" | |
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| Plenty Coups, On Alliance with the United States | |
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| The Agony and Anger of the Eastern Sioux | |
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| Big Eagle's Account of the Great Sioux Uprising | |
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| Jerome Big Eagle, A Sioux Story of the War, ca. 1894 | |
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| The Complaints of Strike the Ree, Medicine Cow, and Passing Hail | |
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| Strike the Ree, Medicine Cow, and Passing Hail, Speeches to the Special Joint Committee on the Condition of Indian Tribes, 1865 | |
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| Massacres North and South | |
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| Account of Sand Creek | |
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| Little Bear, The Sand Creek Massacre, 1864 | |
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| The Massacre on the Marias (1870) | |
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| Bear Head, Account of the Massacre on the Marias | |
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| Talking to the Peace Commissioners: The Treaty of Medicine Lodge, 1867 | |
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| "When We Settle Down We Grow Pale and Die." | |
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| Satanta, Speech at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge | |
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| "I Want to Live and Die as I Was Brought Up." | |
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| Ten Bears, Speech at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge | |
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| "Teach Us the Road to Travel." | |
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| Satank, Speech at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge | |
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| The Slaughter of the Buffalo | |
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| First Hide Hunters | |
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| Luther Standing Bear, "The Plains Were Covered with Dead Bison." | |
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| The End of the Buffalo Road | |
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| Carl Sweezy, On Taking "the New Road" | |
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| "War Between the Buffalo and the White Men" | |
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| Old Lady Horse, The Last Buffalo Herd | |
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| "They Stared at the Plains, as though Dreaming." | |
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| Pretty Shield, When the Buffalo Went Away | |
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| The Battle on the Greasy Grass, 1876 | |
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| Sioux Signs and Arikara Premonitions | |
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| Red Star, Reading the Sioux Signs | |
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| Repelling Reno | |
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| Wooden Leg, A Cheyenne Account of the Battle | |
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| Red Horse: Pictorial Record of the Battle | |
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| "The Soldiers Were All Rubbed Out." | |
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| Iron Hawk, Killing Custer's Men | |
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| "The Women and Children Cried." | |
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| Mrs. Spotted Horn Bull, A View from the Village | |
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| The End of Freedom | |
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| "We Are Melting Like Snow on the Hillside." | |
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| Red Cloud, Speech to the Secretary of the Interior, 1870 | |
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| An Old Woman's Dream | |
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| Buffalo Bird Woman, Recalling the Old Days | |
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| "I Just Listened, Said Nothing, and Did Nothing." | |
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| Wooden Leg, Serving as Judge | |
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| Learning to Like Wohaw | |
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| Carl Sweezy, Learning the White Man's Ways | |
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| Attending the White Man's Schools | |
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| Early Days at Carlisle | |
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| Luther Standing Bear, Life at Boarding School, 1879 | |
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| Wohaw in Two Worlds | |
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| The Life and Death of Sitting Bull | |
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| Scenes from a Warrior's Life | |
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| Sitting Bull's Surrender Song | |
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| "It Is Your Own Doing That I Am Here." | |
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| Sitting Bull, Report to the Senate Committee, 1883 | |
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| "Lieut. Bullhead Fired into Sitting Bull." | |
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| Lone Man, The Death of Sitting Bull, 1890 | |
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| Killing the Dream | |
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| The Messiah's Letter | |
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| Wovoka, Message to the Cheyennes and the Arapahos, ca. 1890 | |
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| "Something Terrible Happened." | |
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| Black Elk, Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890 | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Chronology of How the West Was Lost | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |