Acknowledgement
Dedication
About the Book
Preface: The Indigenous Americas since Time Immemorial
1. Klahowya
2. Listen Up
3. "Since time immemorial."
4. Human Occupation to ca. 1300 CE
5. From Ice Age to Contact
6. Contact and the Columbian Exchange
Part 1: Commerce and Allies
Introduction
Chapter 1: Better Together -- The Great Confederacies
Chapter 2: Two Models of Commercial and Diplomatic Encounters—Wabanaki and Beothuk
Chapter 3: The Plains Peoples—Allies, Conflict, Adaptation
Chapter 4: The Trans-Cordilleran West
Part 2: Engaging Colonialism
Introduction: Defining Colonialism
Chapter 5: “Colonial” Wars Looking East
Chapter 6: Resistance I -- 1750s to 1870s
Chapter 7: Settler Colonialism & Treaty Peoples
Chapter 8: Resistance II -- Red River and Saskatchewan
Part 3: Culture Crisis Change Challenge
Introduction
Chapter 9: Cultural Genocide—Belief Systems, Residential Schools, Potlatch Laws, “Sixties Scoop”
Chapter 10: Experiences of Indigenous Women under Settler Colonialism
Chapter 11: Renewal, Resurgence, Recognition—From White Paper to Armed Protest
Chapter 12: Modernity—Health and Water
More like a Beginning than a Conclusion
Chapter 13: Truth and Reconciliation
Glossary: Speaking the Names of Indigenous Nations
About the Authors