Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-360) and index.
Contents:
Toward the Future. The Beginning of the World -- Rules for Living -- Bears -- Worlds New and Worlds Old ; The Fundamental Violence of Discovery -- Paths of Destruction -- Tsenacommacah -- The Mohegans -- New Worlds -- Living in the New World ; Mourning Wars -- Colonizing the Mohegans -- The Word of God -- Colonizing the Powhatans -- Forging the Covenant Chain -- Indigenous Peoples and the French in a World of War -- The Pueblos' Revolt -- Horses -- The Grand Settlement -- The Cherokees -- Indigenous Peoples and the Nature of Empires -- Indigenous Peoples and the Fall of European Empires -- Penn's Woods -- The Potawatomis in a World of Conflicting Empires -- Settlement and Unsettledness -- Life at the Western Door -- Behind the Frontier -- The Great Wars for Empire -- The Proclamation and the Indian Boundary Line -- Indians and Empires -- 6 Indigenous Peoples and the Rise of a New American Empire ; Change in the Far Western World -- Declarations of Independence -- The Revolution and the Longhouse -- Cherokees and Chickamaugas -- England's Allies and the Confederation -- The Six Nations and the Empire State -- Confederations -- A New Order for the Ages -- 1794, A Year of Consequence -- The White Man's Republic -- 6 Relocations and Removes ; The Mohegans' Struggle for Independence -- The Rise of the Prophet -- Handsome Lake -- Dispossessing the Senecas -- Pioneers and Exiles -- Removing from the Missions -- The Optimism of the Imperialist -- The Invasion of the Great West ; Pledges and Promises -- Settling In and Settling Down -- Homesteaders -- Concentration -- The Indians' Civil War -- Peace and War -- The Age of Dispossession ; "Conform To It or Be Crushed By It" -- Spelatch -- Ghost Dancers -- The Assault on Indian Identity -- Living Under the New Regime -- The New Life in the Indian Territory -- The Crows and the Life on the Northern Plains -- Indigenous Peoples in the Eastern United States -- A Movement for Reform -- The Origins of the Indian New Deal -- New Deals and Old Deals ; Reforming Indian Policy -- Indigenous Peoples and World War II -- Termination and the Coalminer's Canary -- Cleaning the Slate -- New Frontiers -- Red Power -- Sovereign Nations and Colonized Nations ; The Importance of 1978 -- The State of the Nations -- Exercising Sovereignty -- Toward the Future.
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