Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chronology viii
5. Introduction 3
6. Key Elements of Amerindian Diplomacy 15
7. Alliances and Strategies in the Late Seventeenth Century 27
8. Wars and Peace in the Seventeenth Century 46
9. Iroquois Delegations and Colonial Rivalries 61
10. Accommodation and Confrontation in the West 79
11. On the Path to Montreal, 1700–1701 91
12. Montreal, Capital of Peace: 21 July to 7 August 1701 111
13. The Tree of Peace 142
14. 1701: A New Situation 160
15. Conclusion 179
16. The Nature of the Treaty and the Amerindian Pictographs 185
17. The Cast of Characters in the Great Peace of Montreal 190
18. English Translation of the Montreal Treaty of 1701 210
19. Abbreviations 216
20. Notes 217
21. Glossary of the Names of Native Peoples 277
22. Bibliography 281
23. Index 299