Introduction -- Resistance and change : visual culture, missionization and appropriation / Kathleen J. Martin -- Spiritual freedom, pious appropriation / James J. Garrett -- Denying religion : Native Americans and French missionaries in early new France / James B. Jeffries -- Past and present transformation of Hawaiian religious participation / Kalani Beyer -- Ghosts of photography : the 1890 ghost dance and afterimages of the sacred / Larry Taylor -- Negotiating the evidence : Christianity and the ruins of native America / David Toole -- Jesus was not an Indian : encountering native images in the Catholic Church / Kathleen J. Martin -- Ke kauhale o limaloa : a kanaka maoli approach to teaching through image making / Herman Piikea Clark -- The photographic vision of Delvin Slick : beauty and power in sacred places / Karen Willeto and Delvin Slick -- California imagery in context : the Mono Basin Kutzadikaa Paiutes / Angela D. Blaver -- Dancing the Comanches, the Santo Niño, la Virgen (of Guadalupe) and the Genizaro Indians of New Mexico / Bernardo P. Gallegos -- Trickster's art and artifice : concluding thoughts / Kathleen J. Martin and Angela D. Blaver.