Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Maps and Spaces, Paths to Connect, and Lines to Divide -- PART I. SPACES AND POWER -- Chapter 1. The Shapes of Power: Indians, Europeans, and North American Worlds from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 2. Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties -- PART II. SPACES AND LANDSCAPES -- Chapter 3. The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains -- Chapter 4. Colonial Spaces in the Fragmented Communities of Northern New Spain -- Chapter 5. Transformations: The Rio de la Plata During the Bourbon Era -- PART III. SPACES AND RESETTLEMENTS -- Chapter 6. Blurred Borders: North America's Forgotten Apache Reservations -- Chapter 7. The Forced Transfer of Indians in Nueva Vizcaya and Sinaloa: A Hispanic Method of Colonization -- Chapter 8. Remaking Americans: Louisiana, Upper Canada, and Texas -- PART IV. SPACES AND MEMORY -- Chapter 9. Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo-New Mexican Borderland -- Chapter 10. Toward a New Literary History of the West: Etahdleuh Doanmoe's Captivity Narrative -- Chapter 11. Toward an Indigenous Art History of the West: The Segesser Hide Paintings -- Chapter 12. The Borderlands and Lost Worlds of Early America -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.