Tuscarora: A History -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Living in Historical Time -- Chapter 1: Welcome to Skaru're -- Our Visit in 1948-1949 -- Landscape -- Fitting In -- The Rorschach Project -- Recording Tuscarora Texts -- Chapter 2: Tuscarora: Fifty Years Later -- The Bissell Family -- Orientation -- Changes and Persistence -- Diversity and Forbearance -- Gender Balance -- Churches and Spirituality -- Work and Play -- The World Off the Reserve -- Chapter 3: Tuscaroras in North Carolina: Peace, War, and Exodus -- The History Group -- First Encounters 1521-1650 -- The Tuscarora War 1711-1713 -- Migration and Dispersal -- The Communities at Onaquaga -- Factions -- Chapter 4: Policies of Accommodation -- The Success of the Family Farm -- Christian Missions versus the "Old Religion" -- The Temperance Society -- Baptist Traditionalism -- Native Voices of Accommodation: Cusick, Johnson, Hewitt -- Combining the Best of Both Cultures -- Chapter 5: Ethnostress: Selves Lost and Found -- The Concept of Ethnostress -- The Denial of Reciprocity -- The Reservation Schools at Tuscarora -- The Thomas Indian School -- Coping with Ethnostress -- Chapter 6: Siege, Resistance, and Renewal -- Land Claims and the Doctrine of Discovery -- The Reservoir -- The Enduring Siege -- Voices of Resistance: Clinton Rickard, Ted Williams, Mad Bear -- Chapter 7: Family: Household, Clan, and the Woman's Line -- The Matrilineal Clan -- The Paternal Lineage -- Enrollment -- Marriage and Kinship Terminology -- Land and Kinship -- Genealogical Records -- Blood Quantum -- Chapter 8: Governance: Nation, Community, and Confederacy -- Nation and Sovereignty -- The Council of Chiefs -- The Business Council versus the Traditional Chiefs' Council -- The Meetings of Clans and Clan Mothers -- The Haudenosaunee Confederacy -- Chapter 9: Preserving the Cycle of Life.

Growing Up Indian -- Creation and the Good Mind -- The Thanksgiving Address -- Environmentalism -- The Medicines and Spiritual Powers -- The Condolence Ceremony -- Preserving the Cycle of Life -- Epilogue: Saving the Seventh Generation -- In Memoriam: A Tribute to My Big Sister -- Notes on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.