Table of Contents

1. Native view of history Peter Nabokov
2. Native peoples in Euro-American historiography Wilcomb E. Washburn and Bruce G. Trigger
3. The first Americans and the differentiation of hunter-gatherer cultures Dean R. Snow
4. Indigenous farmers Linda S. Cordell and Bruce D. Smith
5. Agricultural chiefdoms of the Eastern woodlands Bruce D. Smith
6. Entertaining strangers: North America in the sixteenth century Bruce G. Trigger and William R. Swagerty
7. Native people and European settlers in Eastern North America, 1600–1783 Neal Salisbury
8. The expansion of European colonization to the Mississippi valley, 1780–1880 Michael D. Green
9. The Great Plains from the arrival of the horse to 1885 Loretta Fowler
10. The greater Southwest and California from the beginning of European settlement to the 1880s Howard R. Lamar with Sam Truett
11. The Northwest from the Beginning of Trade with Europeans to the 1880s Robin A. Fisher
12. The reservation period, 1880–1960 Frederick E. Hoxie
13. The Northern interior, 1600 to modern times Arthur J. Ray
14. The Arctic from Norse contact to modern times David Damas
15. The native American renaissance, 1960–1994, Wilcomb E. Washburn
Bibliographical essays.