Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Maps ix
4. Introduction: Toward a New American History 1
5. Part I Indians and Empires
6. Picture 14
7. 1. American Genesis: Indians and the Spanish Borderlands 17
8. 2. The Native Northeast and the Rise of British North America 48
9. 3. The Unpredictability of Violence: Iroquoia and New France to 1701 73
10. 4. The Native Inland Sea: The Struggle for the Heart of the Continent, 1701–55 106
11. 5. Settler Uprising: The Indigenous Origins of the American Revolution 139
12. 6. Colonialism’s Constitution: The Origins of Federal Indian Policy 176
13. Part II Struggles for Sovereignty
14. Introduction 208
15. 7. The Deluge of Settler Colonialism: Democracy and Dispossession in the Early Republic 211
16. 8. Foreign Policy Formations: California, the Pacific, and the Borderlands Origins of the Monroe Doctrine 250
17. 9. Collapse and Total War: The Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War 289
18. 10. Taking Children and Treaty Lands: Laws and Federal Power during the Reservation Era 329
19. 11. Indigenous Twilight at the Dawn of the Century: Native Activists and the Myth of Indian Disappearance 365
20. 12. From Termination to Self-Determination: Native American Sovereignty in the Cold War Era 408
21. Notes 449
22. Acknowledgments 551
23. Index 553