Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Frederick E. Hoxie
  • Continuing revolution in Indian country / Colin G. Callowy
  • Indian policy of an "empire for liberty" / Reginald Horsman
  • Fictions of patriarchy: Indians and whites in the Early Republic / Richard White
  • Native women in the Early Republic: Old World perceptions, New World realities / Theda Perdue
  • Onas, the Long Knife: Pennsylvanians and Indians, 1783-1794 / Daniel K. Richter
  • "Watchful safeguard to our habitations": Black Hoof and the loyal Shawnees / R. David Edmunds.
  • Iroquois livelihood and Jeffersonian agrarianism: reaching behind the models and metaphors / Daniel H. Usner
  • Cultural contact and crises in the Early Republic: Native American religious renewal, resistance, and accommodation
  • Common man's Indian: the image of the Indian as a promoter of national identity in the Early National Era / Elise Marienstras
  • Imaging the Indians in the United States Capitol during the Early Republic / Vivien Green Fryd / American Nations, old and new: reflections on Indians and the Early Republic / James H. Merrell.