Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Lawrence Sullivan -- Renewal as discourse and discourse as renewal in Native northwestern California / Thomas Buckley -- Traditional ways and contemporary vitality: Absaroke/Crow / John A. Grim -- Rebalancing the world in the contradictions of history: Creek/Muskogee / Joel W. Martin -- Wiping the tears: Lakota religion in the twenty-first century / William K. Powers -- The continuous renewal of sacred relations: Navajo religion / Trudy Griffin-Pierce -- In the space between earth and sky: contemporary Mescalero Apache ceremonialism / Ines Talamantez -- Synchretism, revival, and reinvention: Tlingit religion, Pre- and Postcontact / Richard Dauenhauer -- Eye of the dance: spiritual life of the Central Yup'ik Eskimos / Ann Fienup-Riordan -- Images of the sacred in Native North American literature / Franco Meli