Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- American Pentimento: An Introduction -- 1 Owning Land by Labor, Money, and Treaty -- 2 Imagining a Waste Land -- or, Why Indians Vanish -- 3 Gendering Native Americans: Hunters as Anglo-America's Partial Fiction -- 4 Ownership of Mineral Riches and the Spanish Need for Labor -- 5 Tribute and Social Humiliation: The Cost of Preserving Native Farmlands -- 6 Cannibals: Iberia's Partial Truth -- 7 Sustaining Political Identities: The Moral Boundary between Natives and Colonizers -- 8 Indians in Portuguese America -- 9 Fast Forward: The Impact of Independence on Colonial Structures -- 10 Continuities: Colonial Language and Images Today -- Conclusion. No Perfect World: Contemporary Aboriginal Communities' Human and Resource Rights -- Appendix: On the Names of Some North American Aboriginal Peoples -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.