Foreword / by Sterling Evans
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction: Comparing the US-Canadian and US-Mexican borderlands and the transnational natives who crossed them
Homelands, transnational worlds, labor, and border encounters
Crees, Chippewas, and Yaquis in early transnational contexts
Transnational encounters and evolving prejudice in Montana and Arizona, 1800-1900
Native peoples as "foreign" refugees and immigrants
Yaqui refugees and American response, 1880s-1910s
Cree refugees and American response, 1885-1888
Native struggles to make American homelands
Crees in limbo and deportation, 1889-1900
Arizona Yaquimi and integration in the United States, 1900s-1950s
Yaqui legality and belonging in Arizona, 1900-1950s
Cree and Chippewa attempts at permanent Montana settlement, 1900-1908
New allies, new efforts, and final resolutions
Cree and Chippewa legislative battles and victories, 1908-1916
Yaqui struggle for land and federal tribal recognition, 1962-1980.