Due to a lack of proper documentation, low blood quantum, tribal politics or other reasons, hundreds of thousands of Americans of indigenous descent do not belong to a federally recognized tribe. Following are some of their stories.

CONTROVERSIAL BOOK! Read a separate, more extensive discussion of this topic in our recently released book, Invisible Indians: Mixed-Blood Native Americans Who Are Not Enrolled in Federally Recognized Tribes".

LETTER: When Annette Biggart was a child, her Micmac/Penobscot grandparents pretended not to be Indian. Now with children of her own, Annette struggles to reclaim her family's heritage.

ARTICLE: So we're extinct, huh? In The Long Good-Bye by Phyllis Edgerly Ring, scholars and Natives gather to investigate why whites still believe that there are no more Indians in New England.

LETTER: Mary Kay Leitka needs to document her husband's family after being forced to replace their Muscogee names with English names.

INTERVIEW: Omoya discusses her Mississippi "Black Creek" family, life among the Hopi in Arizona and thoughts on African Yoruba.

LETTER: Carmen Chambers reveals a family secret: the mixed-blood Muscogee great-grandmother kept hidden from the neighbors.

Did African-Amerian slaves use traditional quilt symbols to communicate with the Underground Railroad? Learn more in Following the Threads in the Fabric of Freedom.

An New England woman visits Shanghai and finds herself teaching English to kindergarteners in When West Meets East: A Chicken in China.

The indigenous legacy, an ocean without end. Journey through six generations of a Muscogee and Seminole family line in David Arv Bragi's Sail of Tears.

Do some meals feed more than the belly? In Savoring Solace, Joy Donnell looks to her Cherokee and African roots for "comfort food" that nurtures the soul. Recipes included!

Passover in Nashville? Elizabeth Entman grows up as a Jew in the Bible Belt and learns to love it in Shalom, Y'all!

In Death and the Modern Pagan, Melissa Pinol discusses how this religious community's faithful face life's last great journey.

After Columbine, before Columbine, the next Columbine? Eye of the Tiger, by Tim O'Regan, offers a revealing look at America's schools.

Brian C. Coad sorts through the ardent but confusing Cornish nationalism of his World War II boyhood in The Culture of Cousin Jacks.

NEW! Having fled his beloved homeland to escape censorship, African poet Handsen Chikowore returns to our webzine with Three Zimbabwe Poems of Exile.

Twenty-five years ago, Wicca was not the pop culture phenomenon that it is today. Discover the Wiccan underground of the 1970's in On Pagan Roads

In The Saga of my Hair, Melissa Pinol - who is of Filipina, Spanish, Scottish, Irish, and Russian Jewish descent - recalls a personal dilemma often faced by women of mixed blood.

Zimbabwean poet Handsen Chikowore gives voice to exploited children in Cry African Girl.

The deadliest weapon is the heart. Witness the Sacrifice, a woodland fantasy by David Brägi.

Cherokee drumkeeper and songwriter Barbara Warren discusses Feather River Singers, an all-women's Northern drum group that performs healing music for the Earth, pow wow dances, and warriors past and present.

Wisdom, like dreams, has its embarrasing side. A young Native American Indian struggling with his identity vists an eccentric elder in Grandfather's Dream.

Award-winning short fiction author Kay Sundtrom's haunting vignettes from the land of jacked-up pickups...

The End follows a rag doll with memories of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire.