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.