Contents
Note on Terminology
Introduction: An Icy River and a Raging Sea
Part One: Disease, War, and Dispossession
1. Trajectories, 1500s–1763
2. Wars of Revolution and Independence, 1763–1783
3. Just and Lawful Wars, 1783–1795
4. Survival and New Threats, 1795–1810
5. Wars of 1812
Part Two: Preparing for Removal
6. Nonvanishing Indians on the Eve of Removal, 1815–1830
7. West of the Mississippi, 1803–1835
Part Three: Removal
8. Removal and the Southern Indian Nations, 1830–1840s
9. Removal and the Northern Indian Nations, 1830–1850s
10. Destruction and Survival in the Zone of Removal, 1840s–1860
11. The Name of Removal
Conclusion: Historians and Prophets
Appendix 1. The Question of Genocide in U.S. History
Appendix 2. Population Estimates by Nation
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index