Foreword, The great peace -- A key to six nations pictographs -- Symbols of the six nations -- Clans of the six nations -- An Akwesasne hike / Joan White -- Conservation as the Indian saw it -- The gift of the great spirit -- Thunder boy -- Sa-go-ia-na-wa-sai, our grandfather -- The flying head -- The fierce beast -- The discovery of fire, a tradition -- The invention of the bow and arrow -- The rabbit dance -- The story of the great bear, the Big Dipper -- Why we have mosquitoes -- Songs of the hermit thrush -- The seven dancers -- Tehanetorens / Nadine Jennings -- Memories.