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

Intro -- "Times Are Altered with Us": American Indians from First Contact to the New Republic -- Copyright -- 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 -- End User License Agreement.

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