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| Introduction | |
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| A Note on the Text | |
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| Recollections of early life | |
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| Capture | |
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| Journey from the mouth of the Miami to Sa-gui-na | |
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| Ceremonies of adoption into the family of my foster parents | |
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| Harsh treatment | |
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| Transferred by purchase to the family of Net-no-kowa | |
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| Removal to Lake Michigan | |
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| First attempt to hunt | |
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| Measles | |
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| Trapping martins | |
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| Emigration to Red River | |
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| Death of my foster father and brother | |
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| Arrival at Lake Winnipek | |
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| Friendly reception among the Indians on the Assinneboin | |
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| Prairie Portage | |
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| Net-no-kwa's dream, and its fulfillment | |
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| Meet with Pee-shau-ba, a distinguished warrior of the Ottawwaws | |
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| Journey to Kau-wau-koning, and residence there | |
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| Return towards Lake Superior | |
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| War-party against the Minnetauks | |
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| Mouth of Assinneboin river | |
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| Elk hunting | |
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| Beaver and buffalo hunting | |
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| Endangered in killing a buffalo cow | |
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| Fall Indians | |
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| Return to Rainy Lake | |
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| Swamp River and Portage | |
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| The Begwionusko River and Lake | |
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| Honesty and good faith in the intercourse of the Indians | |
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| Hospitality | |
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| Sufferings from hunger | |
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| Red River | |
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| Loss of packs | |
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| Supposed dishonesty of traders | |
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| Rapacity of the N. W. company | |
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| Disasters following the loss of our peltries | |
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| Medicine hunting | |
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| Indolence of an Indian hunter, and consequent suffering of his family | |
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| Relief from humane traders | |
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| A hunter amputates his own arm | |
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| Moose chase | |
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| Hospitality of Sah-muk, and residence at Rainy Lake | |
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| Carcase of a buffalo cow watched by a bull | |
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| Severe suffering from cold | |
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| My lodge, and most of my property, destroyed by fire | |
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| Failure of an attempt to accompany a war-party to the Missouri | |
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| Removal to Elk River | |
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| Joined in my hunting grounds by some Naudoways, from Lower Canada | |
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| Hospitality of the Crees | |
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| Practice of medicine | |
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| Dispute with a Naudoway | |
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| Band of Tuskwaw-go-nees | |
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| Brine Spring, on Elk River | |
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| I receive a severe injury by falling from my horse | |
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| Involved in difficulty by my foster brother | |
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| Habits of the moose-deer | |
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| Range of the moose, the elk, and the reindeer | |
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| I receive a proposal from a chief to marry his daughter | |
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| Theft and drunkenness | |
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| Manner of pursuing the elk on foot | |
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| Disease and great mortality among the beaver | |
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| Second offer of marriage from an A-go-kwa | |
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| Haunted encampment, called the "place of the two dead men" | |
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| Indian courtship | |
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| Distressing sickness | |
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| Insanity and attempt at suicide | |
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| Gambling | |
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| Several offers of young women in marriage | |
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| My courtship and marriage with Mis-kwa-bun-o-kwa, (the red sky of the morning) | |
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| Preparation for a war excursion | |
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| Herds of buffalo heard at a great distance | |
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| Terrible conflicts among the bulls | |
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| Observances of the young warriors | |
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| Ko-zau-bun-ziche-e-gun, or divination to discover the situation of an enemy | |
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| Jeebi-ug, or memorials of deceased friends to be thrown away on the field of battle; and the design of the custom | |
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| War-party broken up by the interference of a rival chief | |
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| Stupidity of the porcupine | |
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| I save the life of my foster brother | |
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| Albino bears | |
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| Waw-be-no | |
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| Marriage of Piche-to and Skwa-shish | |
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| Attack of a Sioux war-party, and pursuit to the village at Chief Mountain, and the head of the St. Peters, etc. | |
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| Visit to several Assinneboin villages, in pursuit of stolen horses | |
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| Peculiar customs | |
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| I seize a horse belonging to an Assinneboin | |
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| War excursion to Turtle Mountain | |
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| Battle at a village of the Mandans | |
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| Doctrines of the Shawnese prophet | |
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| Drunkenness, and its effects | |
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| Presence of mind and self-devotedness in an Indian mother | |
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| Indian warfare | |
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| Conversation of a chief | |
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| Winter hunt on the Begwionusko River | |
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| Medicine hunting | |
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| Customs, in cases of manslaughter | |
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| Symbolic, or picture writing | |
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| Death of Pe-shau-ba | |
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| Disaster at Spirit Lake, and death of the Little Clam | |
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| Rapacity of the traders | |
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| Revelation of Manito-o-geezhik | |
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| Pretensions of As-kaw-ba-wis | |
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| Credulity of the Indians | |
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| Colony at Red River, planted by the Hudson's Bay traders | |
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| Large war-party assembled at Turtle Mountain | |
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| Want of discipline | |
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| Superstitions of the Indians | |
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| Violent and unjust prejudice | |
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| Family misfortunes | |
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| Remarkable tenacity of life in the otter, and some other small animals | |
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| Disturbances between the Hudson's Bay and North West Fur Companies | |
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| Suffering of the Ojibbeways from hunger | |
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| Persecutions of Waw-be-be-nai-sa, and unkindness of my Indian relatives | |
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| Journey to Detroit | |
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| Governor Cass | |
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| Council at St. Mary, on the Miami | |
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| Journey to Kentucky | |
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| Hospitalities of the whites | |
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| Return to Detroit | |
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| Jackson | |
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| St. Louis | |
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| General Clark | |
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| Return to the Lake of the Woods | |
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| Col. Dickson | |
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| Second journey to St. Louis, by Chikago and Fort Clark | |
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| Kindness of the Potawattomies | |
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| Transactions of the agents and clerks of the American Fur Company, in the country about the Lake of the Woods | |
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| Treachery of an Indian woman | |
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| Misfortunes attendant on an attempt to bring my children from the Indian country | |