| Author's Note | p. xi |
| Prologue | p. xiii |
| Part 1 | | |
| 1 | Choose the Good | p. 3 |
| 2 | The Midwife | p. 13 |
| 3 | Cream Shoes | p. 24 |
| 4 | Apache Women | p. 31 |
| 5 | Honest Dirt | p. 41 |
| 6 | Shield and Buckler | p. 54 |
| 7 | The Lord Will Provide | p. 67 |
| 8 | Tiny Harlots | p. 76 |
| 9 | Perfect in his Generations | p. 84 |
| 10 | Shield of Feathers | p. 92 |
| 11 | Instinct | p. 98 |
| 12 | Fish Eyes | p. 104 |
| 13 | Silence in the Churches | p. 112 |
| 14 | My Feet No Longer Touch Earth | p. 122 |
| 15 | No More a Child | p. 132 |
| 16 | Disloyal Man, Disobedient Heaven | p. 142 |
| Part 2 | | |
| 17 | To Keep it Holy | p. 153 |
| 18 | Blood and Feathers | p. 160 |
| 19 | In the Beginning | p. 167 |
| 20 | Recitals of the Fathers | p. 174 |
| 21 | Skullcap | p. 182 |
| 22 | What We Whispered and What We Screamed | p. 187 |
| 23 | I'm From Idaho | p. 198 |
| 24 | A Knight, Errant | p. 207 |
| 25 | The Work of Sulphur | p. 216 |
| 26 | Waiting for Moving Water | p. 223 |
| 27 | If I Were a Woman | p. 228 |
| 28 | Pygmalion | p. 235 |
| 29 | Graduation | p. 244 |
| Part 3 | | |
| 30 | Hand of the Almighty | p. 255 |
| 31 | Tragedy then Farce | p. 265 |
| 32 | A Brawling Woman in a Wide House | p. 274 |
| 33 | Sorcery of Physics | p. 279 |
| 34 | The Substance of Things | p. 284 |
| 35 | West of the Sun | p. 290 |
| 36 | Four Long Arms, Whirling | p. 297 |
| 37 | Gambling For Redemption | p. 306 |
| 38 | Family | p. 314 |
| 39 | Watching the Buffalo | p. 320 |
| 40 | Educated | p. 327 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 331 |
| A Note on the Text | p. 333 |