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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Common Themes in American Indian Philosophy | |
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| First Introductions | |
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| Four Common Themes: A First Look | |
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| Constructing an Actual American Indian World | |
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| Nelson Goodman's Constructivism | |
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| Setting the Stage | |
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| Fact, Fiction, and Feeders | |
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| Ontological Pluralism | |
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| True Versions and Well-Made Worlds | |
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| Nonlinguistic Versions and the Advancement of Understanding | |
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| True Versions and Cultural Bias | |
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| Constructive Realism: Variations on a Theme by Goodman | |
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| True Versions and Cultural Bias | |
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| An American Indian Well-Made Actual World | |
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| Relatedness, Native Knowledge, and Ultimate Acceptability | |
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| Native Knowledge and Relatedness as a World-Ordering Principle | |
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| Native Knowledge and Truth | |
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| Native Knowledge and Verification | |
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| Native Knowledge and Ultimate Acceptability | |
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| An Expansive Conception of Persons | |
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| A Western Conception of Persons | |
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| Native Conceptions of Animate Beings and Persons | |
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| An American Indian Expansive Conception of Persons | |
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| The Semantic Potency of Performance | |
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| Opening Reflections and Reminders About Performances | |
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| Symbols and Their Performance | |
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| The Shawnee Naming Ceremony | |
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| Gifting as a World-Constructing Performance | |
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| Closing Remarks About the Semantic Potency of Performances | |
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| Circularity as a World-Ordering Principle | |
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| Goodman Briefly Revisited | |
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| Time, Events, and History or Space, Place, and Nature? | |
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| Circularity as a World-Ordering Principle | |
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| Circularity and Sacred Places | |
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| Closing Remarks About Circularity as a World-Ordering Principle | |
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| The Dance of Person and Place | |
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| American Indian Philosophy as a Dance of Person and Place | |
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| Consequences, Speculations, and Closing Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |