"This is an Arthur A. Levine book"--Title page verso.

Apple Records: Uncle Tomahawk hangs around the fort until he finds his own metaphor -- Boarding school philosophy, shorter, simplified edition: practical application -- Hello, my name is... -- Naming ceremony -- My grandmothers gain nicknames by relative proximity -- Little Umma reads the ethnographer's Rorschach cards -- Big Umma delivers a quick lesson in history and survival. -- The red album. A note to those who know my family -- How Dog Street gets its name -- Early and late -- The spoiled brat -- I believe I find evidence that I am not an alien -- Official and unofficial covers -- My siblings try to find evidence I am not an alien -- What they leave us, when they leave us -- Metropolitan Stadium, August 21, 1965 -- From Iron Man to Skywalker: 1. Half this blood, half that -- Hunger test 1 -- Eel -- Tonto's Dog Street cousins -- Jaboozie gives me two lessons in tradition -- From Iron Man to Skywalker: 2. Tanned hide -- Wyatt Wingfoot gives us some four-color cosmic hope -- Hunger test 2 -- My brother quietly tries to wake us up -- Proving ground or baptism of fire -- I lose a ribbon shirt to bloodlines -- Jaboozie turns me on to Deep Cuts -- Mr. Dressup -- Metamorphoses -- Lucky -- The boy who fell to the rez -- From Iron Man to Skywalker: 3. Public assistance -- Wyatt Wingfoot ends up singing that same old song --

Stupid things I buy the summer I am 13 -- I leave formal training before this opportunity begins -- Hampton's shadow crosses over us again -- From Iron Man to Skywalker: 4. Devourer of worlds -- Disguise -- Masks unmasked -- In Spencer's, I become someone else for under ten dollars -- From Iron Man to Skywalker: 5. Amputation scars -- Reception -- Jeannie teaches me some moves I don't know -- How Jaboozie and I almost lose it -- From Iron Man to Skywalker: 6. Cliffhangers and disc jockeys -- Hunger test 3. Cumulative exam -- How to be less popular in high school when you are Indian and/or poor -- From Iron Man to Skywalker: 7. Clone Wars -- Electric blanket as ouija board in sixteen parts -- Jaboozie passes me the book -- Jaboozie's sister teaches me about fire -- Beneath the constellations, the smoke moves home -- Jaboozie and I love naked eyes -- Lines spoken to me through high school and, let's face it, beyond -- Migration -- May I have this dance? -- Jaboozie passes me the atlas to my future. -- Dog Street: Side A: Come together ; Something ; Maxwell's silver hammer ; Oh! Darling ; dt Octopus's garden ; I want you (she's so heavy) --

Side B: Here comes the sun ; Because ; You never give me your money ; Sun king ; Mean Mr. Mustard ; Polythene Pam ; She came in through the bathroom window ; Golden slumbers ; Carry that weight ; The end -- Her Majesty -- Get back. Peel this skin -- Indian love call -- Are these tricks or are these treats? -- Legacy -- Everybody knows -- Poem to the beams in my uncle's house, empty these days -- My mother delivers a quick lesson in survival and history -- Domestic rate, Carlisle, PA, or a grandmother corresponds with her service-bound grandson -- Jaboozie brings my aunt home, unexpectedly -- Hunger test: primer revisited -- Making promises -- The ethnographer turns the Rorschach cards on himself -- "We had some good times anyway" -- The ethnographer leaves us a gift -- I gain a ribbon shirt in bloodlines -- Indian picnic cornbred -- Ash and smoke -- Howdy prepares for the future -- Lost (in translation) -- And on this day, we commence -- Dog Street, July 3, 2009 -- Lost and found on Dog Street -- On New Year's Eve, my sister sends me a photo -- Liner notes.