Daniel K. Richter is Professor of History and Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2002), won the 2001–2002 Louis Gottschalk Prize in Eighteenth-Century History and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.James H. Merrell is Professor of History at Vassar College. His book, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal (1989), won the Bancroft Prize, the Merle Curti Award, and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award. His most recent book is Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (1999).

• ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors Foreword by Wilcomb E. Washburn Preface to the paperback edition by Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell MapsThe Iroquois and Their Neighbors in the Early 1670s The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in the Early 1760s IntroductionDaniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell Part IPerspectives from Iroquoia1. Ordeals of the Longhouse: The Five Nations in Early American HistoryDaniel K. Richter2. Linking Arms: The Structure of Iroquois Intertribal Diplomacy Mary Druke Becker3. Covenant and Consensus: Iroquois and English, 1676–1760 Richard L. Haanpart IINear Neighbors4. Toward the Covenant Chain: Iroquois and Southern New England Algonquins, 1637–1684 Neal Salisbury5. "Pennsylvania Indians" and the Iroquois Francis Jennings6. Peoples "In Between": The Iroquois and the Ohio Indians, 1720–1768 Michael N. McConnellPart IIIDistant Friends and Foes7. "Their Very Bones Shall Fight": The Catawba-Iroquois Wars James H. Merrell8. Cherokee Relations with the Iroquois in the Eighteenth Century Theda Perdue9. "As the Wind Scatters the Smoke": The Tuscaroras in the Eighteenth Century Douglas W. BoyceNotesIndex

“A state-of-the-art look at Iroquois relations with other tribes. . . . An excellent example of how an Indian-centered approach to colonial history can contribute to our understanding of the broader world in which all colonial Americans lived.”—Richard Aquila