"Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America"-- Provided by publisher.

Animas -- Almost Yuman -- The Price is Right -- Not your Indian outlaw -- The phantom limb -- Bicentennial girl -- Crowned -- First funeral -- Pancake alley -- Boarding school -- Hall of mirrors -- Lab work -- All saints -- Pocahottie -- The woman who was a mirage -- The ghost dance -- Flight.