Introduction: Toward a new American history --
Indians and Empires. American genesis : Indians and the Spanish borderlands --
The Native Northeast and the rise of British North America --
The unpredictability of violence : Iroquoia and New France to 1701 --
The Native inland sea : the struggle for the heart of the continent, 1701-55 --
Settler uprising : the Indigenous origins of the American Revolution --
Colonialism's constitution : the origins of federal Indian policy --
Struggles for Sovereignty. The deluge of settler colonialism : democracy and dispossession in the early republic --
Foreign policy formations : California, the Pacific, and the borderlands origins of the Monroe Doctrine --
Collapse and total war : the Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War --
Taking children and treaty lands : laws and federal power during the reservation era --
Indigenous twilight at the dawn of the century : Native activists and the myth of Indian disappearance --
From termination to self-determination : Native American sovereignty in the Cold War era.
