Full blood, mixed blood, generic, and ersatz: the problem of Indian identity -- Opechancanough: Indian resistance leader -- King Philip's herds: Indians, colonists and the problem of livestock in early New England -- Bewitching tyranny of custom: the social costs of Indian drinking in colonial America -- Indians' new world -- Thinking and believing: Nativism and unity in the ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh -- Backdrop for disaster: Causes of the Akikara War of 1823 -- Cherokee woman and the trail of tears -- Bison ecology and bison diplomacy -- Indian land use and environmental change in Island Country, Washington: a case study -- Indians in Los Angeles, 1781-1875 -- Navajo at the Bosque Redondo -- Consequences of reservation life -- Lakota ghost dance -- Allotment period on the Nez Perce Reservation -- Right in the midst of my own people -- Reservation leadership and the progressive-traditional dichotomy -- Urban Indians and ethnic choices -- Inconstant advocacy -- Build toward self-determination -- Listening to the native voice -- Termination and the eastern band of Cherokees -- Pawnee of Nebraska -- Politics of Indian gaming

1. Indians of North America