Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-345) and index.
1. Native American Labor: Retrieving History, Rethinking Theory / Martha C. Knack and Alice Littlefield -- 2. Tribal Network and Migrant Labor: Mi'kmaq Indians as Seasonal Workers in Aroostook's Potato Fields, 1870-1980 / Harald E. L. Prins -- 3. Wage Labor in Two Michigan Ottawa Communities / James M. McClurken -- 4. Indian Education and the World of Work in Michigan, 1893-1933 / Alice Littlefield -- 5. The Significance of Cheyenne Work in the History of U.S. Capitalism / John H. Moore -- 6. Nineteenth-Century Great Basin Indian Wage Labor / Martha C. Knack -- 7. Watering the Flower: Laguna Pueblo and the Santa Fe Railroad, 1880-1943 / Kurt M. Peters -- 8. Indian Labor in San Diego County, California, 1850-1900 / Richard L. Carrico and Florence C. Shipek -- 9. Wage Labor: Survival for the Death Valley Timbisha / Beth Sennett -- 10. From Legend to Land to Labor: Changing Perspectives on Native American Work / Patricia C. Albers