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Prologue: Indians and whites : an essay on misunderstanding -- pt. I. Indian-white contact : background. The white man's frontier in American history : the impact upon the land and the Indian ; Unsavory sidelights on colonial trade ; Wampum and the protocol of treaty-making ; White gift-giving : French skills in managing the Indians -- pt. II. Indian-white contact : frontier conflicts. British Indian-white relations : Edmond Atkin's scheme for imperial control ; A message to Fort William Henry : drama of siege and Indian savagery ; Gift-giving and Pontiac's uprising ; Pontiac's War : a conspiracy? ; 1763 : year of decision on the Indian frontier -- pt. III. Indian-white contact : final perspectives. The noble savage theme : attitudes and policies toward the Indian in the British colonies ; The price of progress : native people on the European frontiers of Australia, New Guinea, and North America -- Epilogue: What we owe the woodland Indians -- Appendix I. Chronological highlights of early Indian-white relations -- Appendix II. Chronological highlights of early native-white contacts in Australia and Papua-New Guinea.
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