| 7. The Deluge of Settler Colonialism: Democracy and Dispossession in the Early Republic |
| Racial Formations and the Market Revolution | 213 |
| A Deluge of Opportunities | 216 |
| Whiteness, Gender, and Naturalization | 218 |
| Myth Making in the American Imagination | 221 |
| Expulsion or Incorporation: The Ambiguity of Indian Policy | 222 |
| Early Federal-Indian Diplomacy | 224 |
| Slave Revolts and Interior Indian Campaigns, 1791-1800 | 227 |
| Indian Treaty Making and the Practices of Federal Power | 229 |
| Jay's Treaty, the Treaty of Greenville, and Foreign and Domestic Affairs | 234 |
| Treaty Making and the Origins of the Louisianna Purchase | 236 |
| Indians and State's Rights in the South | 239 |
| Indian Removal and the Marshall Court | 242 |
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8. Foreign Policy Formations: California, the Pacific, and the Borderlands Origins of the Monroe Doctrine |
| Mission Uprising: Persecution and Colonialism | 254 |
| Changes in California's Maritime Economy | 259 |
| Imperialists from the North: THe Russian-American Company | 262 |
| The Pacific Coast in the Age of Revolution | 264 |
| Attempted Incorporations of the Northwest | 267 |
| The Economic and Epidemiological Roots of Dependency |
| Smallpox and the Reordering of Western Indian Societies | 274 |
| Missouri and the Crisis of Mexican Independence | 276 |
| Borderlands Standoff: Florida and Spain's Crumbling Empire | 278 |
| The Seminole War and the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 | 282 |
| James Monroe, John Marshall, and the Doctrines of 1823 | 285 |
| 9. Collapse and Total War: The Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War |
| Settler Booms and the Ansence of the State | 291 |
| The Dakota War and Indeginous Genocide | 293 |
| California Militias at the Beginning of the Civil War | 295 |
| The Civil War and the Union's Ineffective Indian Office | 299 |
| Settles Colonialism and Infrastructure during the Civil War | 300 |
| The Hybridity of the Southwest | 303 |
| Treaty Making on the Northern Plains | 305 |
| Oklahoma Indians and the Crisis of Secession | 308 |
| Western Mining and Economic Booms | 314 |
| California Volunteers outside of California: From Owens Valley to Bear River | 317 |
| The Long Walk and Confinement at Bosque Redondo | 321 |
| The Road to Sand Creek | 323 |
| 10. Taking Children and Treaty Lands: Laws and Federal Power during the Reservation Era |
| The West's New Legal Regimes | 332 |
| New Land and Education Policies | 333 |
| Indians, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Growth of the Federal Government | 337 |
| Treaty Making during Reconstruction | 339 |
| Infrastructure and Environmental Change | 343 |
| The Origins of the Great Sioux Reservation | 345 |
| The Great Sioux War and Centennial America | 348 |
| The Challenges of Assimilation | 353 |
| Expansion of the Assimilation Campaign: 1880s-1920s | 356 |
| The Surpeme Court Affirms the Plenary Power Doctrine | 359 |
| The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 | 363 |
| 11. Indigenous Twilight at the Dawn of the Century: Native Activists and the Myth of Indian Disappearance |
| World's Fairs and the Politics of Representation | 370 |
| American Imperialism and Growing Movements of Indigenous Resistance | 374 |
| The Society of American Indians | 377 |
| The Vexed Place of Citizenship: Communal Sovereignty versus Individualism | 381 |
| Laura Cornelius Kellog's Internationalism and Iroquois Advocacy | 386 |
| Allotment, Race, and the Meriam Report's "Problem of Indian Administration" | 390 |
| Henry Roe Cloud and Elizabeth Bender Cloud's Shared Visions of Empowerment | 394 |
| The Great Depression and the Indian New Deal | 398 |
| Activism at the Local and National Levels: The Origins of the Hualapai Decision | 402 |
| 12. From Termination to Self-Determination: Native American Sovereignty in the Cold War Era |
| Native Americans and World War II | 413 |
| The Early Cold War in Indian Country | 417 |
| Ideology versus Practice: The Twisted Implementation of Termination | 419 |
| Reservation Resources and Menominee Termination | 422 |
| The Cold War and the Racial Logic of Termination | 425 |
| Termination and Indian Child Welfare | 428 |
| The Rising Tide of Red Power | 432 |
| The Road to Self-Determination: 1969-78 | 436 |
| Expansion and Backlash: Self-Determination in the Late Twentieth Century | 440 |