Contents

• Foreword / Vine Deloria, Jr.
• Prologue: A History Written in Bone
• 1. Columbus, Arawaks, and Caribs: The Power to Name
• 2. A Vanishing American Icon
• 3. The First American Archaeologist
• 4. A Short History of Scientific Racism in America
• 5. Darwin and the Disappearing American Indian
• 6. The Great American Skull Wars
• 7. The Anthropology of Assimilation
• 8. The Anthropologist As Hero
• 9. Collecting Your Fossils Alive
• 10. Is "Real History" Embedded in Oral Tradition?
• 11. The Perilous Idea of Race
• 12. Origin Myths from Mainstream America
• 13. The Smithsonian Takes on All Comers
• 14. Where Are All the Native American Archaeologists?
• 15. Breakthrough At Folsom
• 16. Busting the Clovis Barrier
• 17. What Modern Archaeologists Think About the Earliest Americans
• 18. "Be An Indian and Keep Cool"
• 19. An Indian New Deal: From Absolute Deprivation to Mere Poverty
• 20. The Red Power of Vine Deloria, Jr.
• 21. Legislating the Skull Wars
• 22. Tribal Affiliation and Sovereignty
• 23. Speaking of Oral Tradition
• 24. An Archaeology Without Alienation