Foreword: Many nations

Part I The indigenous people of North America, 1000s to 1750. Ancient cities in Arizona, Illinois, and Alabama

The "fall" of cities and the rise of a more egalitarian order

Ossomocomuck and Roanoke Island

Mohawk peace and war

The O'odham Himdag

Quapaw diplomacy

Part II Confronting settler power, 1750 and beyond. Shawnee towns and farms in the Ohio Valley

Debates over race and nation

The nineteenth-century Cherokee Nation

Kiowas and the creation of the Plains Indians

Removals from the east to a Native west

The survival of nations

Afterword: Sovereignty today.