Introduction : the animating breath / Ray A. Williamson and Claire F. Farrer

Cosmos and poesis in the Seneca thank-you prayer / Paul Zolbrod

The celestial skiff : an Alabama myth of the stars / Ray A. Williamson

" ... by you they will know the directions to guide them" : stars and Mescalero Apaches / Claire R. Farrer

Morning star, evening star : Zuni traditional stories / M. Jane Young

Navajo earth and sky and the celestial life force / Rik Pinxten and Ingrid Van Dooren

The Hooghan and the stars / Trudy Griffin-Pierce

Saguaro wine, ground figures, and power mountains : investigations at Sears Point, Arizona / Tom Hoskinson

Menil (moon) : symbolic representation of Cahuilla woman / Lowell Bean.

Racing Simloki's shadow : the Ajumawi interconnection of power, shadow, equinox and solstice / Jack M. Broughton and Floyd Buckskin

North Pacific ethnoastronomy : Tsimshian and others / Jay Miller

Clot-of-blood / Alice B. Kehoe

On the necessity of sacrifice in Lakota stellar theology as seen in "the hand" constellation, and the story of "the chief who lost his arm" / Ronald Goodman

The chief and his council : unity and authority from the stars / Von Del Chamberlain

The conjurer's lodge : celestial narratives from Algonkian Shamans / Thor Conway

Asking the stars : narrative indicators of Seneca hunting ceremonial / Thomas McElwain

Epilogue : blue archaeoastronomy / Claire R. Farrer and Ray A. Williamson.