Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations and Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: uses of stories and of history 1
6. Chapter 1 Precolonial stories/precolonial histories 15
7. Chapter 2 Stories of settler-colonizers, and of the colonized 40
8. Source break: bear flag narratives 72
9. Chapter 3 The bear flag incident 75
10. Chapter 4 Stories and histories of women and violence in the colonial north 93
11. Source break: the white mind 112
12. Chapter 5 Mobilizing linear narratives 116
13. Source break: civilized man 140
14. Chapter 6 Raced bodies in white spaces 142
15. Chapter 7 Conclusion 167
16. Notes 173
17. Bibliography 223
18. INDEX 243