This book is based on an 11-day international gathering of Indigenous Elders and educators in 1998. The readings are organized within four areas of Indigenous education and culture: worldview, curriculum change, governance and policies, and spiritual reflections. The entries are: "Circular Vision: Through Native Eyes" (Marie Eshkibok-Trudeau); "When Prison Is a School: Today's Residential Schools" (Paula Mallea); "Misty Lake" (Dale Lakevold, Darrell Racine); "Challenges of Respecting Indigenous World Views in Eurocentric Education" (James Sa'ke'j Youngblood Henderson); "Weaving a World of Respect" (Mayan weaving, resistance, and nonformal education) (Robin June Hood); "A Recent Interview with Agustin Sapon Morales"; "The Cry of the Loon: Mysterious, Mournful, Remembering Place" (Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley); "Alaska Standards for Culturally Responsive Schools"; "Culturally Appropriate Healing and Counselling: One Woman's Path Toward Healing" (Brenda Isabel Wastasecoot); "A Sense of Place: Aboriginal Research as Ritual Practice" (Carolyn Kenny); "An Aboriginal Pedagogical Model: Recovering an Aboriginal Pedagogy from the Woodlands Cree" (Cathy Wheaton); "Teaching/Learning across Cultures: Strategies for Success" (Ray Barnhardt); "The 'At-Risk' Student: Defining Experiences" (Melinda Hrechka); "How Plants Can Be Used in the Classroom" (Natalie Tays); "The Preservation of Traditional Plant Lore" (Robin J. Marles); "The Protection of Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights: A Bibliography"; "Ten Years After: Cross Lake Education Authority Local Control of Indian Education" (Rebecca A. Ross); "Two Watershed Speaches of the 1980s and 1990s: Metis History and Status in Canada" (Paul Chartrand); "Working for the Government in Indigenous Education: Strategic Planning in Current Maori Education in New Zealand" (Rawiri Brell); "Education and Renewal in Aboriginal Nations: Highlights of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples" (Marlene Brant Castellano); "Declaration Affirming the Principles for Indigenous Education and Self-Government" (assembled delegates); "Elder's Comments" (Edward Onabigon); and "One More Thing" (anonymous poem). (TD)