Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Aboriginal Population Movements in the Postcontact Southeast -- The Great Southeastern Smallpox Epidemic, 1696-1700: The Region's First Major Epidemic? -- Spanish Missions and the Persistence of Chiefly Power -- Trouble Coming Southward: Emanations through and from Virginia, 1607-1675 -- The Mother of Necessity: Carolina, the Creek Indians, and the Making of a New Order in the American Southeast, 1670-1763 -- The Ohio Valley, 1550-1750: Patterns of Sociopolitical Coalescence and Dispersal -- The Cultural Landscape of the North Carolina Piedmont at Contact -- Reconstructing the Coalescence of Cherokee Communities in Southern Appalachia -- From Prehistory through Protohistory to Ethnohistory in and near the Northern Lower Mississippi Valley -- Colonial Period Transformations in the Mississippi Valley: Disintegration, Alliance, Confederation, Playoff -- Social Changes among the Caddo Indians in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.