Revised edition of: The American Indian experience, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Black gowns and Massachusetts men: Indian-white relations in New France and New England to 1701 -- Mutual distrust and mutual dependency: Indian-white relations in the era of the Anglo-French wars for empire, 1689-1763 -- Facing off: Indian-Spanish rivalry in the greater southwest, 1528-1821 -- The trail of tears: removal of the southern Indians in the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian era -- Blue, gray, and red: Indian affairs during the American Civil War -- Ambiguity and misunderstanding: the struggle between the U.S. Army and the Indians for the Great Plains -- The bitter years: western Indian reservation life -- Reformers' images of the American Indians: the late nineteenth century -- From bullets to boarding schools: the educational assault on American Indians -- The divided heart: the Indian new deal -- Dislocated: the federal policy of termination and relocation, 1945-1960 -- Finally acknowledging native peoples: American Indian policies since the Nixon administration -- Bury my heart in smog: urban Indians -- Native sovereignty: then and now in California and the Northwest -- Traditions and transformations: American Indian women in historical perspective -- Our dead are never forgotten: American Indian struggles for burial rights and protections.