Includes bibliographical references (pages 709-807) and index.

Introduction / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- British Indian policies to 1783 / Wilbur R. Jacobs -- Dutch and Swedish Indian policies / Francis Jennings -- French Indian policies / Mason White -- United States Indian policies, 1776-1815 / Reginald Horsman -- United States Indian policies, 1815-1860 / Francis Paul Prucha -- United States Indian policies, 1860-1900 / William T. Hagan -- United States Indian policies, 1900-1980 / Lawrence C. Kelly -- Canadian Indian policies / Robert J. Surtees -- Spanish Indian policies / Charles Gibson -- Mexican Indian policies / Edward H. Spicer -- Danish Greenland policies / Finn Gad -- Russian and Soviet Eskimo Indian policies / Richard A. Pierce -- Colonial Indian Wars / Douglas E. Leach -- Indian-United States military situation, 1775-1848 / John K. Mahon -- Indian-United States military situation, 1848-1891 / Robert M. Utley -- British Colonial Indian treaties / Dorothy V. Jones -- United States Indian treaties and agreements / Robert M. Kvasnicka -- Canadian Indian treaties / Robert J. Surtees -- Indian land transfers / Arrell M. Gibson -- The legal status of American Indians / Lawrence R. Baca -- Presents and delegations / Francis Paul Prucha -- Colonial government agencies / Yasuhide Kawashima -- Nineteenth-Century United States government agencies / Philleo Nash -- Government Indian agencies in Canada / Douglas Sanders -- American Indian Education / Margaret Connell Szasz and Carmeilta S. Ryan -- Indian rights movement until 1887 / Robert W. Mardock -- Indian rights movement, 1887-1973 / Hazel Whitman Hertzberg -- The fur trade in the colonial Northeast / William J. Eccles -- The Hudson's Bay Company and native people / Arthur J. Ray -- Indian trade in the Trans-Mississippi West to 1870 / William R. Swagerty -- The Maritime trade of the North Pacific Coast / James R. Gibson -- Economic relations in the Southeast until 1783 / Daniel H. Usner, Jr. -- Trade goods / E.S. Lohse -- Indian servitude in the Northeast / Yasuhide Kawashima -- Indian servitude in the Southeast / Peter H. Wood -- Indian servitude in the Southwest / Albert H. Schroeder and Omer C. Stewart -- Indian servitude in California / Robert F. Heizer -- Ecological change and Indian-White relations / William Cronon and Richard White -- Protestant churches and the Indians / R. Pierce Beaver -- Mormon mission to the Indians / John A. Price -- Roman Catholic missions in New France / Lucien Campeau -- Roman Catholic Missions in California and the Southwest / Sherburne F. Cook and Cesare R. Marino -- Roman Catholic missions in the Southeast and the Northeast / Robert I. Burns -- Roman Catholic missions in the Arctic / Louis-Jacques Dorais and Bernard Saladin d'Anglure -- The Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska / Sergei Kan -- White conceptions of Indians / Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. -- Relations between Indians and anthropologists / William K. Powers -- The Indian Hobbyist Movement in Europe / Colin F. Taylor -- Indians and the counterculture, 1960s-1970s / Stewart Brand -- The Indian in literature in english / Leslie A. Fiedler -- The Indian in non-english literature / Christian F. Feest -- The Indian in popular American culture / Rayna D. Green -- The indian in the movies / Michael T. Marsden and Jack G. Nachbar.