Ethnicity -- Origin Theories -- Natural History from Ice Age to Modern Times -- Prehistoric Hokkaido and Ainu Origins -- Contacts with the Japanese -- Survival Today -- Medical Culture and Conquest -- Indigenous Rights -- Ainu and Northwest Coast Peoples -- Romyn Hitchcock and the Smithsonian Ainu Collection -- Early Ainu Collections at the American Museum of Natural History -- Japanese Ainu Collections -- Kamury -- Ainu Ecosystem -- Foods of Choice -- Technology, Settlement and Hunting Rituals -- Whaling -- Seasons and Gender Roses -- Children's Play -- Spirit-Sending Ceremonies -- Shamanism -- Life and Death -- Yukar -- Art -- Saranip and Tenki -- Ainu Basketry -- Language -- Itaomachip

1. Ainu
2. Ainu -- Social life and customs
3. Ethnology -- Japan