Table of Contents:
  • "These Indians appear to be wealthy" : economy and identity during the late fur-trade period in the Lower Great Lakes / Michael Strezewski
  • "Remarkable elasticity of character" : colonial discourse, the market economy, and Catawba itinerancy, 1770-1820 / Mark R. Plane
  • Identity in a post-removal Cherokee household, 1838-50 / Lance Greene
  • Business in the hinterlands : the impact of the market economy on the west-central Great Plains at the turn of the 19th century / Cody Newton
  • Negotiating borders : the southern Caddo and their relationships with colonial governments in East Texas / P. Shawn Marceaux and Timothy K. Perttula.