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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Our Purpose | |
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| Indian Theology and the Dream of Freedom | |
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| Knowing Our History | |
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| Indians and Christians | |
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| The Question of Conversion | |
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| Religion and Culture | |
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| Space, Time, and Place | |
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| The Value of Community | |
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| Gender | |
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| Ethical Values and the Concept of Sin | |
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| Hermeneutics: Origin of Belief | |
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| Differing Bases for Interpretation of the Bible | |
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| Native Hermeneutics | |
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| Seeking a Biblical Base for Interpretation | |
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| Creation: Balancing the World for Seven Generations | |
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| Creation | |
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| Beginnings | |
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| Human Beginnings | |
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| Human Privilege and Communities of Respect | |
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| Balancing the World for Life | |
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| Reciprocity: A Foundation for Balance | |
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| Spatiality: Place and Time | |
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| The Circle and Mitakuye Oyasin | |
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| Deity: The Creative Power in the World | |
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| Diverse Cultural Views of God and Gods | |
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| Wakonda: An Indian Deity | |
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| Christology: Who Do You Say That I Am? | |
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| The Gift of Vicarious Suffering | |
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| American Indians and Jesus | |
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| Language and Lordship: Jesus as Conqueror | |
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| Lordship and the Shaping of the Amer-European Experience | |
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| No Other Name: Colonizer's Claim to Universal Truth | |
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| Christ, Logos, Pre-existence and Corn Mother | |
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| Corn Mother as Christ | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Theological Anthropology: Is the Windingo Real? | |
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| A Brief History of Anthropology | |
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| The Concept of Personhood | |
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| The Nature of Power | |
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| Sacred Clowns | |
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| Myth and Sacred Text | |
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| Sacred Time and Sacred Space | |
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| Models of Cultural Change | |
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| Indian Anthropologists | |
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| Sin and Ethics: The Notion of Sin | |
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| Will and Power | |
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| Sin and Sexuality | |
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| Death and Afterlife | |
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| Sin and Law | |
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| Sin and Sickness | |
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| Ethical Values and the Concept of Sin | |
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| The Sin of Pride | |
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| Trickster: The Sacred Fool | |
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| The Reversal of the Ordinary | |
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| Jesus as Trickster | |
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| Land: We Sing the Land into Existence | |
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| The Howling Wilderness | |
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| A Problematic Historical Context | |
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| Culture and Conversion | |
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| Legal Constructs of Indian Land | |
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| "Let Him Begin without Lands" | |
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| Contemporary Issues with Regard to Land | |
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| Redefining Land | |
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| Christian Attitudes Toward Native Spirituality | |
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| Native Americans and Environmental Concerns | |
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| Eschatology: End, Salvation, Rebirth | |
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| The World Wears Out | |
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| Pre- and Post-Contact Eschatological Traditions | |
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| Messianic Traditions | |
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| Who Do You Say That I Am? | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Racism | |
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| Land Claims | |
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| Stereotyping | |
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| Wannabes | |
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| Mascots, Brand Names, and Cultural Appropriation | |
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| Freedom of Religion and Its Violation | |
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| Native Americans and the Church | |
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| Poverty and Other Issues | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |