Native nations: a millennium in North America

Foreword: Many nations

Part I. The indigenous peoples of North America, 1000s to 1750. Ancient cities in Arizona, Illinois, and Alabama ; The "fall" of cities and the rise of a more egalitarian order ; Ossomocomuck and Roanoke Island ; Mohawk peace and war ; The O'odham Himdag ; Quapaw diplomacy

Part II. Confronting settler power, 1750 and beyond. Shawnee towns and farms in the Ohio Valley ; Debates over race and nation ; The nineteenth-century Cherokee Nation ; Kiowas and the creation of the Plains Indians ; Removals from the East to a Native West ; The survival of nations

Afterword: Sovereignty today.