Introduction: An Icy River and a Raging Sea -- Part One: DISEASE, WAR, AND DISPOSSESSION. Trajectories, 1500s-1763 -- Wars of Revolution and Independence, 1763-1783 -- Just and lawful Wars, 1783-1795 -- Survival and new threats, 1795-1810 -- Wars of 1812 -- Part Two: PREPARING FOR REMOVAL. Nonvanishing Indians on the eve of removal, 1815-1830 -- West of the Mississippi, 1803-1835 -- Part Three: REMOVAL. Removal and the Southern Indian Nations, 1830-1840s -- Removal and the Northern Indian Nations, 1830-1850s -- Destruction and Survival in the Zone of Removal, 1840s-1860 -- The Name of Removal -- Conclusion: Historians and Prophets -- Appendix 1. The Question of Genocide in U.S. History -- Appendix 2. Population Estimates by Nation.
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