Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Maps and Spaces, Paths to Connect, and Lines to Divide 1
4. PART I. SPACES AND POWER
5. Chapter 1. The Shapes of Power: Indians, Europeans, and North American Worlds from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century 31
6. Chapter 2. Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties 69
7. PART II. SPACES AND LANDSCAPES
8. Chapter 3. The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains 95
9. Chapter 4. Colonial Spaces in the Fragmented Communities of Northern New Spain 115
10. Chapter 5. Transformations: The Rio de la Plata During the Bourbon Era 142
11. PART III. SPACES AND RESETTLEMENTS
12. Chapter 6. Blurred Borders: North America’s Forgotten Apache Reservations 163
13. Chapter 7. The Forced Transfer of Indians in Nueva Vizcaya and Sinaloa: A Hispanic Method of Colonization 184
14. Chapter 8. Remaking Americans: Louisiana, Upper Canada, and Texas 208
15. PART IV. SPACES AND MEMORY
16. Chapter 9. Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo–New Mexican Borderland 229
17. Chapter 10. Toward a New Literary History of the West: Etahdleuh Doanmoe’s Captivity Narrative 257
18. Chapter 11. Toward an Indigenous Art History of the West: The Segesser Hide Paintings 276
19. Chapter 12. The Borderlands and Lost Worlds of Early America 300
20. Notes 325
21. List of Contributors 409
22. Index 413
23. Acknowledgments 427