Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Native Power and European Trade
5. Chapter 1. Tsenacomoco and the Atlantic World: Stories of Goods and Power 13
6. Chapter 2. Brothers, Scoundrels, Metal-Makers: Dutch Constructions of Native American Constructions of the Dutch 42
7. Chapter 3. “That Europe Be not Proud, nor America Discouraged”: Native People and the Enduring Politics of Trade 53
8. Chapter 4. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience 69
9. Chapter 5. Dutch Dominos: The Fall of New Netherland and the Reshaping of Eastern North America 97
10. Chapter 6. Brokers and Politics: Iroquois and New Yorkers 113
11. Part II. European Power and Native Land
12. Chapter 7. Land and Words: William Penn’s Letter to the Kings of the Indians 135
13. Chapter 8. “No Savage Should Inherit”: Native Peoples, Pennsylvanians, and the Origins and Legacies of the Seven Years War 155
14. Chapter 9. The Plan of 1764: Native Americans and a British Empire That Never Was 177
15. Chapter 10. Onas, the Long Knife: Pennsylvanians and Indians After Independence 202
16. Chapter 11. “Believing That Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food”: A Quaker View of Indians in the Early U.S. Republic 227
17. Notes 251
18. Index 307
19. Acknowledgments 315