1. Reversal of fortune: gambler myths of the Northwest and West.
2. Rolling stones, birds' eyes, and "The song of Hiawatha": gambler myths of the eastern woodlands.
3. Tribal revivalism: the Pawnee ghost dance hand game.
4. The Great Gambler: a Navajo legend in pre-Columbian archaelogy of the Southwest and Mexico.
5. Birth, death, and resurrection: gambling messiahs in post-conquest Mexico and the Southwest.
6. Sacred lots in the Old World.
Epilogue: Myths of the eternal return.
Appendix I. A summary of more recent Indian gaming politics.
Appendix II. Noqoilpi, the Great Gambler (a Navajo legend).
Appendix III. Gaming-piece distribution among prehistoric peoples of the Southwest.