Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Many nations
  • Part I. The indigenous peoples of North America, 1000s to 1750. Ancient cities in Arizona, Illinois, and Alabama
  • The "fall" of cities and the rise of a more egalitarian order
  • Ossomocomuck and Roanoke Island
  • Mohawk peace and war
  • The O'odham Himdag
  • Quapaw diplomacy
  • Part II. Confronting settler power, 1730 and beyond. Shawnee towns and farms in the Ohio valley
  • Debates over race and nation
  • The nineteenth-century Cherokee nation
  • Kiowas and the creation of the Plains Indians
  • Removals from the East to a native West
  • The survival of nations
  • Afterword: Sovereignty today.