Similar to the Foxfire books, Indian Summer is a collection of crafts and stories about elders living a traditional way of life. The chapter headings: From Along the Path, Birth & Death, Life Goes On, A Summer Gathering, Another Summer Gathering, Some Visits With Old People, Memories of An Earlier Old Man, A Magical Day with the Old Folks, This Is Not Our Tipi, Regarding Good Medicine Books, She Called it the Root of Life, Memories of Louie, Another Visit with Grandma, Ishi-A Past Man of Nature, On Meeting Old People, Pow-Wow Time, Smallboy's, The Last Great Council of Chiefs, Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin--Grey Owl, Medicine Flower, Wild Rice, Feather Bonnet, Museums, The Story of Princess Lexpai, Poems from the Shore of Lake Huron, Random Thoughts, Apikunni--James Willard Schultz, Some Relevant Sources.