Contents

  1. Acknowledgement

  2. Dedication

  3. About the Book

  4. Preface: The Indigenous Americas since Time Immemorial

    1. 1. Klahowya

    2. 2. Listen Up

    3. 3. "Since time immemorial."

    4. 4. Human Occupation to ca. 1300 CE

    5. 5. From Ice Age to Contact

    6. 6. Contact and the Columbian Exchange

  5. Part 1: Commerce and Allies

    1. Introduction

    2. Chapter 1: Better Together -- The Great Confederacies

    3. Chapter 2: Two Models of Commercial and Diplomatic Encounters—Wabanaki and Beothuk

    4. Chapter 3: The Plains Peoples—Allies, Conflict, Adaptation

    5. Chapter 4: The Trans-Cordilleran West

  6. Part 2: Engaging Colonialism

    1. Introduction: Defining Colonialism

    2. Chapter 5: “Colonial” Wars Looking East

    3. Chapter 6: Resistance I -- 1750s to 1870s

    4. Chapter 7: Settler Colonialism & Treaty Peoples

    5. Chapter 8: Resistance II -- Red River and Saskatchewan

  7. Part 3: Culture Crisis Change Challenge

    1. Introduction

    2. Chapter 9: Cultural Genocide—Belief Systems, Residential Schools, Potlatch Laws, “Sixties Scoop”

    3. Chapter 10: Experiences of Indigenous Women under Settler Colonialism

    4. Chapter 11: Renewal, Resurgence, Recognition—From White Paper to Armed Protest

    5. Chapter 12: Modernity—Health and Water

  8. More like a Beginning than a Conclusion

    1. Chapter 13: Truth and Reconciliation

  9. Glossary: Speaking the Names of Indigenous Nations

  10. About the Authors