Foreword

Preface

Introduction Indian-European Encounters in New England: An Annotated, Contextual Overview

ALDEN T. VAUGHAN

PART ONE: Early Intercultural Contact

1. Why Was the Sagadahoc Colony Abandoned? An Evaluation of the Evidence

ALFRED A. CAVE

2. The Treatment of the Indians in Plymouth Colony

DAVID BUSHNELL

3. "A Melancholy People": Anglo-Indian Relations in Early Warwick, Rhode Island, 1642-1675

JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL

PART TWO: Debates on the "Indian Wars"

4. The Pequot War Reconsidered

STEVEN T. KATZ

5. Another Look at the Causes of King Philip's War

PHILIP RANLET

6. Indian John and the Northern Tawnies

JOHN MCWILLIAMS

PART THREE: Missionaries and Indians

7. Conversion from Indian to Puritan

WILLIAM S. SIMMONS

8. A Reappraisal of the Praying Indians: Acculturation, Conversion, and Identity at Natick, Massachusetts, 1646-1730

HAROLD W. VAN LONKHUYZEN

9. "Poor Indians" and the "Poor in Spirit": The Indian Impact on David Brainerd

RICHARD W. POINTER

PART FOUR: Conflicts over Labor, Land, and Jurisdiction

10. Indian Labor in Early Rhode Island

JOHN A. SAINSBURY

11. The Red Man Dispossessed: The Williams Family and the Alienation of Indian Land in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1763-1818

LION G. MILES

PART FIVE: Indians in the New Nation

12. Indians and the Literature of the Federalist Era: The Case of James Elliot

EUGENE L. HUDDLESTON

13. "A Perpetual Harrow upon My Feelings": John Quincy Adams and the American Indian

LYNN HUDSON PARSONS

14. The Mashpee Indian Revolt of 1833

DONALD M. NIELSEN

15. William Apes, Pequot: An Indian Reformer in the Jacksonian Era

KIM MCQUAID

Note on Contributors

Index