Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indian/White relations: a view from the other side of the "frontier" / Alfonso Ortiz -- America before Columbus / James A. Brown -- Colonial America without the Indians: a counterfactual scenario / James Axtell -- Indians in the colonial Spanish borderlands / Henry F. Dobyns -- Native Americans and the American Revolution: historic stories and shifting frontier conflict / Kenneth M. Morrison -- Indian tribes and the American Constitution / Charles F. Wilkinson -- Indians in Southern history / Theda Perdue -- National expansion from the Indian perspective / R. David Edmunds -- How the West was lost / William T. Hagan -- The curious story of reformers and the American Indians / Frederick E. Hoxie -- American imperialism and the Indians / Walter L. Williams -- Modern America and the Indian / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- The struggle for Indian civil rights / W. Richard West, Jr., Kevin Gover.