Introduction: Toward a new American history --

Part I: 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 --

Part II: 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.