Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago.
American landscapes, seen and unseen / Richard F. Townsend
Thoughts on the preservation of traditional culture : an interview with Timmy Thompson / F. Kent Reilly III
The archaeology of aesthetics / David W. Penney
Hopewell art in Hopewell places / Mark F. Seeman
The Newark Earthworks : monumental geometry and astronomy at a Hopewellian pilgrimage center / Bradley T. Lepper
Continuity and change in Mississippian civilization / Garrick Bailey
The Cahokia site and its people / Robert L. Hall
The Cahokian expression : creating court and cult / James A. Brown
People of earth, people of sky : visualizing the sacred in Native American art of the Mississippian period / F. Kent Reilly III
Marking stone, land, body, and spirit : rock art and Mississippian iconography / Carol Diaz-Granados
Power and the sacred : Mound C and the Etowah chiefdom / Adam King
Moundville art in historical and social context / Vincas P. Steponaitis and Vernon J. Knight, Jr.
Thoughts on the preservation of traditional culture : an interview with Joyce and Turner Bear / F. Kent Reilly III
Art, ritual, and chiefly warfare in the Mississippian world / David H. Dye
World on a string : some cosmological components of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex / George E. Lankford
Prehistoric art of the Central Mississippi Valley / Chester P. Walker
The ancient art of Caddo ceramics / Richard F. Townsend and Chester P. Walker
Caddo art : a personal perspective / Stacey Halfmoon
The Bread Dance : a Shawnee ceremony of thanks and renewal / Ruthe Blalock Jones.
Hero, hawk, and open hand : American Indian art of the ancient Midwest and South. ISBN 0300106017. Published by Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.