Native America

Michael Leroy Oberg, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY-Geneseo and Director of the Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History. He is the author of Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685, and Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794. Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich received his PhD in History from William & Mary in 2021. He is the editor of The New American Antiquarian.

• List of FiguresList of MapsIntroduction1 Myths and Legends The Beginning of the WorldRules for LivingBears2 Worlds New and Worlds Old The Fundamental Violence of DiscoveryPaths of DestructionTsenacommacahThe MohegansNew Worlds3 Living in the New World Mourning WarsColonizing the MohegansThe Word of GodColonizing the PowhatansForging the Covenant ChainIndigenous Peoples and the French in a World of WarThe Pueblos’ RevoltHorsesThe Grand SettlementThe CherokeesIndigenous Peoples and the Nature of Empires4 Indigenous Peoples and the Fall of European Empires Penn’s WoodsThe Potawatomis in a World of Conflicting EmpiresSettlement and UnsettlednessLife at the Western DoorBehind the FrontierThe Great Wars for EmpireThe Proclamation and the Indian Boundary LineIndians and Empires5 Indigenous Peoples and the Rise of a New American Empire Change in the Far Western WorldDeclarations of IndependenceThe Revolution and the LonghouseCherokees and ChickamaugasEngland’s Allies and the ConfederationThe Six Nations and the Empire StateConfederationsA New Order for the Ages1794, A Year of ConsequenceThe White Man’s Republic6 Relocations and Removes The Mohegans’ Struggle for IndependenceThe Rise of the ProphetHandsome LakeDispossessing the SenecasPioneers and ExilesRemoving from the MissionsThe Optimism of the Imperialist7 The Invasion of the Great West Pledges and PromisesSettling In and Settling DownHomesteadersConcentrationThe Indians’ Civil WarPeace and War8 The Age of Dispossession “Conform To It or Be Crushed By It”Spelatch Ghost DancersThe Assault on Indian IdentityLiving Under the New RegimeThe New Life in the Indian TerritoryThe Crows and the Life on the Northern PlainsIndigenous Peoples in the Eastern United StatesA Movement for ReformThe Origins of the Indian New Deal9 New Deals and Old Deals Reforming Indian PolicyIndigenous Peoples and World War IITermination and the Coalminer’s CanaryCleaning the SlateNew FrontiersRed Power10 Sovereign Nations and Colonized Nations The Importance of 1978The State of the NationsExercising SovereigntyToward the FutureBibliographyIndex