358 pages
8 illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Crowding in upon Their Said Lands": The Consequences of Land Encroachment upon Native Communities in Southern New England, 1675<EN>1775
2. "Endeavouring to Use It for the Good of My Fellow Indians": Wheelock's Indians and the Gospel of Community Revitalization, 1742<EN>72
3. "Endeavour to Do All Things as Becometh Brothers": Kinship and Community in the Formation of Brothertown, 1771<EN>95
4. "Your People" and "Our People": Maintaining Boundaries and Preserving Brothertown, 1785<EN>1812
5. "No Great Friend of Indians": Politicians, Speculators, Entrepreneurs, and the Failed Brothertown Migration to the White River, 1809<EN>25
6. "A Tedious, Perplexing, and Harassing Dispute": Contesting and Defining Land Ownership in the Michigan Territory, 1820<EN>32
7. "A New State of Things": Citizenship and Land Ownership as Means to Sovereignty, 1832<EN>40
Conclusion
Notes
Index