Black robes and Boston men : Indian-White relations in New France and New England, 1524-1701 -- Spaniards, Frenchmen, and Indians : European-Indian relations in the greater Southwest -- Mutual dependency and mutual distrust : Indian-White relations in British America, 1701-1763 -- Images : the problem of the Indian in the Revolution -- Breaching the Ohio boundary : the western tribes in retreat -- Trail of tears : removal of the southern Indians -- Industrial society and the opening of the West : the American Indian in the Trans-Mississippi West and the impact of the American Civil War -- Fire and sword : ambiguity and the Plains War -- Bitter years : western Indian reservation life -- Humanity and reform : Indian policy and the Hayes presidency -- To kill a nation : liquidation of the five Indian republics.
Reformers' images of the Native Americans : the late nineteenth century -- From bullets to boarding schools : the educational assault on the American Indian identity -- Divided heart : the Indian New Deal -- Dislocated : the federal policy of termination and relocation, 1945-1960 -- Bury my heart in smog : urban Indians -- Something old, something new : Indians since World War II.