American Encounters

1. Indians’ Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans 2. Indians’ New World: The Catawba Experience Part One: Contact Arenas Demography and Disease 3. Virgin Soils Revisited Ideology and Spirituality 4. Iroquois Women, European Women 5. Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade 6. The Berdache and the Illinois Indian 7. Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha’s Vineyard 8. Dreaming of the Savior’s Blood: Moravians and the Indian Great Awakening in Pennsylvania 9. Of Missionaries and their Cattle: Ojibwa Perceptions of a Missionary as Evil Shaman Economy and Exchange 10. Encounters with Spirits: Ojibwa and Dakota Theories Regarding the French and their Merchandise 11. King Philip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England 12. Bewitching Tyranny of Custom: Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America 13. Frontier Exchange Economy Lower Mississippi 14. First Whalemen Nantucket 15. 'White & Clean' and Contested: Creek Towns and Trading Paths in the Aftermath of the Seven Years’ War 16. The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Cultures Diplomacy and Warfare 17. A Diplomacy of Gender: Rituals of First Contact in the 'Land of the Tejas' 18. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience 19. 'A Little Flesh We Offer You': The Origins of Indian Slavery in New France 20. The White Indians of Colonial America 21. 'This Evil Extends Especially to the Feminine Sex': Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands 22. Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier Part Two: From Revolution to Removal, and Beyond 23. Thinking and Believing: Nativism and Unity in the Ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh 24. The Right to a Name 25. Taking Account of Property: Stratification among the Creek Indians in the Early Nineteenth Century 26. The Staff of Leadership 27. 'More Motley than Mackinaw': From Ethnic Mixing to Ethnic Cleansing on the Frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783–1833 28. Winning of the West