| Acknowledgments | 9 |
| Editor's Introduction | 11 |
| Introductory note | 21 |
| Nanabozho | 25 |
| Kawbawgam's Remarks on Nanabozho | 30 |
| How Nanabozho Came to Have a Wolf Companion | 32 |
| Nanabozho in Time of Famine | 33 |
| The Diver | 36 |
| Nanabozho Plays at Being Dead | 37 |
| The Lost War Party | 38 |
| Thunderbirds and the Medicine Root | 40 |
| The Mishi Ginabig and the Thunderbirds | 42 |
| Mishi Ginabig in Lake Michigamme | 43 |
| Water Spirits in Sable Lake | 45 |
| The Curing of I-que-wa-gun | 48 |
| The Great Turtle | 51 |
| The Girl and the Midewug | 52 |
| The Midewiwin | 55 |
| The Jessakkiwin and the Mide | 57 |
| The Jessakkiwin | 59 |
| The Cedar Knife | 61 |
| Paying the Devil | 65 |
| Fasting and Medicine Songs | 67 |
| Iron Maker | 69 |
| Note on Iron Maker | 70 |
| Kwasind | 71 |
| Nibawnawbe | 74 |
| A Famine and How a Medicine Man Saved the People | 79 |
| Fragment of a Medicine Story | 81 |
| The Snow Rabbit and the North Wind | 83 |
| The Man Who Died Three Times | 84 |
| The Man from the World Above | 85 |
| The Robin | 89 |
| The Whippoorwill | 90 |
| The Sister's Ghost | 91 |
| The Beast Men | 92 |
| The Great Skunk | 96 |
| The Great Bear of the West | 97 |
| The Great Skunk and the Great Bear of the West | 101 |
| Wampum Hair | 102 |
| The Girls and the Porcupine | 108 |
| Chickadee Boy | 109 |
| The League of the Four Upper Algonquian Nations | 112 |
| Fight with the Iroquois | 114 |
| Two Stories of Sauks Head | 116 |
| Sauks at Portage Entry | 122 |
| Some Ojibwa History | 124 |
| Wyagaw | 126 |
| Our Brother-in-Law's Adventures | 129 |
| Aitkin and the Ojibwa | 131 |
| The Story of a Half-breed | 134 |
| Major Rains | 138 |
| Jacques LePique's Reminiscences, Preliminary Note | 139 |
| Reminiscences of Jacques LePique - A Journey to the Arctic | 141 |
| Adventures on the Prairie (about 1833) A Massacre by the Sioux | 142 |
| Jacques' Life at the Sault and on Lake Superior | 144 |
| Overland Trails | 152 |
| Some Ojibwa Place Names | 154 |
| Ojibwa Names of the Twelve Moons or Months of the Year | 158 |
| Notes On Kawbawgam | 159 |
| Appendix | 161 |
| Bibliography | 163 |