- Foreword
- Introduction
- How to Use Dangerous Memories
- The Invasion
- Resistance
- African American Resistance
- Indigenous Resistance: North America
- First Settlement
- Connecticut, 1637
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Plymouth, 1676
- Northwest Territory, 1763
- Northwest Territory, 1812
- New Leaders
- Middle West, 1812
- Georgia 1829-1835
- Cherokee Trail of Tears
- United States, 1838-1839
- Smoky Mountains, 1838
- Fort Lyon, 1864
- The Cheyenne Fight Back
- Sand Creek, 1864
- Fort Laramie, 1868
- Washington D.C., 1889
- War for Paha Sapa (Black Hills)
- The Wild West, 1885
- Pine Ridge Reservation, 1890
- Wounded Knee, 1890
- Pine Ridge Reservation, 1925
- Reservations and Renewed Resistance
- San Francisco, 1969
- Pine Ridge Reservation, 1972
- Pine Ridge Reservation, 1973
- Indigenuous Resistance: South
- The Age of Andean Resistance
- Rebellion and Revolution: Mexico
- Central American Resistance
- Resistance Today
- Culture
- The White Way, the Native Way
- Dangerous Memory as Cultural Resistance
- Accumulation vs. Sharing
- Requerimiento/The Requirement
- Moral Superiority: The White Man’s Burden
- Symbols of Freedom
- Repentance
- Facing Massacre
- A Caribbean Notion of Time
- The Gifts of the Colonized
- Paula Gunn Allen
- Economic Contribution: The Gift of Silver
- Agricultural Contribution: The Gift of Food
- Medical Contributions: The Gift of Healing
- Contributions of the Maya People
- Columbus Day
- Story and Song
- The Gifts of Africans
- To Love the Land
- Spirit
- The Gift of Resistance
- Killing the Spirit, Keeping the Spirit
- Chief Seattle (Sealth)
- How Cultural Invasion has Affected North American Culture
- Culture: Post-Reading Strategies
- Bibliography








