Times Are Altered with Us: American Indians from First Contact to the New Republic

“Times Are Altered with Us”: American Indians from First Contact to the New Republic
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Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Introduction
Chapter 1 1492 and Before
	Before Europeans
	Invasions of America
	Rewriting “History”
	The Bering Strait Theory
	Culture Areas
	The Development of Maize
	The Southwest
	The Eastern Woodlands
	Native American Population before 1492
	Native Americans and Old World Diseases
	The Columbian Exchange
Chapter 2 Encountering the Spanish
	Pánfilo de Narváez
	Cabeza de Vaca
	The De Soto Expedition
	Mabila
	The Death of De Soto
	Coronado
	On to Quivera
	Bartolomé de Las Casas
	The Black Legend
	La Florida
	New Mexico
	Acoma
	Converting the Pueblo
	The Pueblo Revolt
Chapter 3 Encounters with the French
	Verrazzano’s Voyage
	Cartier
	Huguenots in Florida
	The Fur Trade
	Champlain
	War with the Iroquois
	The Jesuits in Canada
	Alcohol and Native People
	La Salle and Louisiana
Chapter 4 English and Native People in the Southeast
	Ireland, the Foundation of English Colonial Strategy
	The West Countrymen
	Roanoke
	The Powhatan Confederacy
	Jamestown
	Opechancanough’s Wars
	Bacon’s Rebellion
	The Indian Slave Trade
	The Yamasee War
Chapter 5 Native Americans in New England
	English Sassafras Hunters
	John Smith Explores New England
	The Separatists
	Tisquantum
	Thomas Morton and “Merre-mount”
	The Pequot War
	Miantonomi and Uncas
	John Eliot and the Praying Towns
	Metacom’s Rebellion
Chapter 6 The Five Nations, the Dutch, and the Iroquois Wars
	Hudson’s Voyage
	The Dutch West India Company
	New Netherland’s Two Indian Policies
	The Mohawk–Mahican War
	Dutch and Algonquins at New Amsterdam
	Iroquois Economic Crisis and the Weakening of the Wendat
	The Beaver Wars
	The Grand Settlement of 1701
Chapter 7 Seeking a Middle Ground
	Pennsylvania
	The Walking Purchase
	The Iroquois Become Pennsylvania’s Enforcers
	Into the Ohio Country
	The Middle Ground
	Native Americans as Military Proxies
Chapter 8 The Imperial Wars
	The Imperial Wars
	The Treaty of Lancaster
	Disputing the Ohio Country
	Braddock’s Defeat
	Lake George
	Montcalm Takes Command
	The Tide Turns against the French
	The Cherokee War
Chapter 9 Pontiac’s Rebellion
	Neolin, the Delaware Prophet
	The French Leave
	The British Economize
	Jeffery Amherst’s Indian Policy
	Pontiac
	The Siege of Detroit
	Michilimackinac
	Bloody Run
	The Devil’s Hole
	Bushy Run
	The End of Pontiac’s Rebellion
	The Proclamation of 1763
	The Paxton Boys
	Pontiac’s Fate
	Flouting the Proclamation
Chapter 10 The Great Plains and the Far West
	The Plains
	The Bison
	The Arrival of the Horse
	The Plains before the Horse
	The Spread of Horses on the Plains
	The Cultural Impact of Horses and Muskets
	Smallpox in the West
	The Plains Migrations
	War over the Buffalo
	Women’s Changing Roles and Status
	The Environmental Impact of the Horse
	The Russians
	Spanish Missions in California
	The English Arrive in the Pacific Northwest
Chapter 11 Native Americans and the American Revolution
	Appropriating Native Identity
	Divisions among the Iroquois
	Neutrality
	Joseph Brant
	Oriskany
	American Allies
	The Death of Cornstalk
	A Generational Divide
	“Monster Brant”
	The Sullivan Campaign
	Atrocity at Gnadenhütten
Chapter 12 Coping with the New Republic
	The Conquest Policy
	Alliances with Europeans
	The Northwest Confederacy
	The End of the Conquest Policy
	Harmer’s Defeat
	St Clair’s Defeat
	British Interference
	Division in the Northwest Confederacy
	Fallen Timbers
	The Treaty of Greenville
	The “Blessings of Civilization”
	Spiritual Renewal
Bibliographical Essay
	Chapter 1: 1492 and Before
	Chapter 2: Encountering the Spanish
	Chapter 3: Encounters with the French
	Chapter 4: English and Native People in the Southeast
	Chapter 5: Native Americans in New England
	Chapter 6: The Five Nations, the Dutch, and the Iroquois Wars
	Chapter 7: Seeking a Middle Ground
	Chapter 8: The Imperial Wars
	Chapter 9: Pontiac’s Rebellion
	Chapter 10: The Great Plains and the Far West
	Chapter 11: Native Americans and the American Revolution
	Chapter 12: Coping with the New Republic
Index
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