At Home on the Earth: Becoming Native to Our Place Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Living in Place
	Americans Native to this Land
	A First American Views His Land	19
	Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination	30
	The Loss of Place
	from A Native Hill	45
	Touching the Earth	51
	Shadows and Vistas	57
	The Possibility of Place
	from A Native Hill	65
	Settling Down	77
	from The Place, the Region, and the Commons	93
	The Hudson River Valley: A Bioregional Story	103
	Native Cultures and the Search for Place
	Becoming Metis	113
	A Sprig of Sage	119
	The Gifts of Deer	125
Pt. 2	Places to Live
	Homesteading
	from The Writer as Alaskan: Beginnings and Reflections	153
	Ranching
	The Subtlety of the Land	165
	A Storm, the Cornfield, and Elk	180
	The Smooth Skull of Winter	185
	Farming
	Learning to Fail	191
	from A Country Year: Living the Questions	201
	Living Between City and Country
	On Willow Creek	211
	Ceremonial Time	227
	Into the Maze	240
	Urban Living
	Water under American Ground: West 78th Street	249
	from This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence	256
	Nothing Lasts a Hundred Years	266
	Fantasy of a Living Future	289
	Coda
	The Rediscovery of Turtle Island	297
	The Universe Responds: Or, How I Learned We Can Have Peace on Earth	307
	Dwellings	313
	Bibliography	319
	Acknowledgments	325