1. An Introduction to the Indigenous Arts of North America -- Art history and Native Art: The Challenge of Inclusion -- Colonial Legacies -- Spiritual Practices and the Making of Art -- Social Practices and the Making of Art -- 2. The Southwest -- The Southwest as a Region -- The Ancient World: Anasazi, Mimbres, Hohokam -- From Late Precontact to the Colonial Era to the Modern Pueblos -- Navajo and Apache Arts -- 3. The East -- The East as a Region -- The Southeast: The Cataclysm of Contact -- The Northeast and the Great Lakes -- 4. The West -- The West as a Region -- Art of the Great Plains -- The Intermontaine Region-An Artistic Crossroads -- The Far West: Arts of California and the Great Basin -- 5. The North -- The North as a Region -- Arts of the Boreal Forests -- The Arctic -- Historic and Contemporary Arts of the Arctic -- Toward the Twenty-First Century in the North -- 6. The Northwest Coast -- The Northwest Coast as a Region -- The Development of Styles: Local Variations and Regional Continuities Across Time -- Contexts for Art: Power, Status, and Cross-Cultural Exchange -- Northwest Coast Art Since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 7. Native Art 1900-1980: Moderns and Modernists -- The Multiplicity of Modernisms -- Moderns and Modernists at the Mid-Century -- Artists and Activists in Canada: The 1970s and 1980s -- 8. Native Cosmopolitanisms: 1980 and Beyond -- The 1980s and the Rise of a Contemporary Native Art Movement -- Contemporary Art: Media, Expressive Modes, Artistic Choices -- Preeminent Issues in Native Art Since 1980 -- Conclusion: "Celebrate 40,000 Years of American Art" - But Be Vigilant.