Anderson, Karen. Chain Her By One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Discusses how Native American culture was disrupted by the arrival of Europeans, particularly gender roles.  Employs Foucault power theory to  demonstrate how disease, war, famine and trade promoted the subjugation of women among the Huron and Montaignais Indians.

Axtell, James. The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Ten essays that employ a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to present both a discussion and example of ethnohistory in Colonial America.  Themes addressed include methodology, image, kinship, language, and cultural adaptations.

_____. The Invasion Within: the Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Ethnohistory examination of French and British efforts to civilize Native American populations that emphasizes socio-cultural interaction and adaptation.

Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native Americans Communities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Study of eight Indian communities during the Revolutionary War.  Emphasizes Indian agency in tracing their diplomacy, strategies, and conflicts.

_____. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans and the Remaking of Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997.

Examines the early interactions of Indians with English, French, and Dutch colonists.  Calloway demonstrates how Native American’s influenced mainstream Euro-American culture.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.

Traces the impact of man on ecosystems, beginning with Indians and following through to colonists.  Cronon explains how religious and economic theory impacted the use of the land.

Delage, Denys. Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64. trans. by Jane Brierley. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1993.

Study of the collision between Native Americans and Europeans in the Northeast from first contact through the withdrawal of the Dutch in 1664.  The Hurons are the center focus, though the Iroquois are also addressed in detail.

Dowd, Gregory Evans. A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Traces intertribal relations and religious revitalizations during the last half of the eighteenth century.  Dowd explores commonalities and pan-Indianism among the Delawares, Shawnees, Cherokees, and Creeks.

Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian Hating and Empire Building. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Reveals the long-entrenched relationship between racism and expansion.  Drinnon demonstrates the American drive to “civilize” the “savages” in three regions: North America, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Gutierrez, Ramon. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Controversially explores three eras in Pueblo culture, beginning with the pre-European contact Indians, the Spanish occupation, and the Mexican nation.  All eras are bound together by themes of power, sexuality, and nation building.

Hatley, Tom. Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Examines Cherokee and South Carolina history to demonstrate their mutual cultural impact on the regions geopolitics.  Examining war, politics, and economics, Hately constructs a single interwoven history from Charleston’s 1680 establishment until the first US-Cherokee treaty in 1785.

Hudson, Charles M and Carmen Chaves Tesser. The Forgotten Centuries : Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Seventeen essays in four sections devoted to Spanish exploration, specific communities, transformation of indigenous societies, and the constitution of new societies from a patchwork of predecessors.  Though at times a bit disconnected, the text offers a broad approach to cultural transmission and change.

Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

Traces Indian-Puritan conflict in the colonial era; the first half is a chronicle of white expansion and conquering of Indians; the second half offers a case study in southwestern New England.  The text is particularly concerned with dispelling myths about early white-Indian relations regarding trade and war.

Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. ed. America in 1492:  The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus. New York: Knopf, 1992.

A collection of essays by established scholars that describe Native American culture before Columbus.  The text tackles myths of the “noble savage” and the “debased human,” and it illustrates diversity of culture among the various tribes.  The text also includes a helpful chapter-referenced annotated bibliography.

Merrell, James. The Indians New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Uses archeology, anthropology, and folklore to trace a Carolina Piedmont tribe from the sixteenth century until mid nineteenth century focusing on the Indians’ adaptations as they interacted with disease, diplomats, missionaries, and traders.

O'Brien, Jean. Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Examines the progressive dispossession of New England Indians and how they retained identity despite territorial pressures and subsequent cultural adaptation.  Rather than disappear, Indians resisted European expansion and co-opted English cultural practices and institutions to rebuild their own communities.

Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Examines Iroquois from pre-contact until about 1730, exploring gender, clan, and community patterns of obligation to emphases creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy that preserved cultural autonomy.  Effectively demonstrates how historians should use oral tradition.

_____. Facing East from Indian Country : a Native History of Early America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Examines colonization from the Indian perspective, beginning with the reconstruction of communities and the impact of disease, and followed by an analysis regarding Pocahontas, Mohawk Kateri Tekawitha, and Metacom.  The text dabbles in discourse analysis and illustrates how to infer Indian perspective from European records.

Shoemaker, Nancy. A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Examines cultural transmissions and entrenchment along racial lines through the medium of eighteenth-century Indian councils and treaties.  She demonstrates similar outlooks about land, government, record-keeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body, and also demonstrates the origin of popular stereotypes.

Trigger, Bruce. Children of the Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976.

A “definitive two-volume ethnohistory of the Huron people...  [It] eschews the traditional Indian-White relations format and introduces us to Indian people ‘who had worthy ambitions of their own and who were, and are, able to conduct their own affairs and to interact intelligently with Europeans.’” –James Ronda, Ethnohistory, Vol. 24, No. 3. (Summer, 1977), pp. 287-288.

Trigger, Bruce. Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985.

Expands Canada’s “Heroic Age” beyond traditional boundaries by beginning before Jacques Cartier and including a historiography guided by the intent to “challenge traditional interpretations of the past.”   Chapters address various issues from the myth of the “noble savage” to influence of “plagues and preachers.”

Usner, Daniel H. Jr. Indians, Settlers and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Offers “a history of relations among Indians, Europeans, and Africans; and a history that brings the story of all three to bear on an important current debate…. Participants in the debate over the ‘transition to capitalism’ will here find the many peoples of the Lower Mississippi shaping, and affected by, economic developments.”  --Gregory Dowd, The American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 1. (Feb., 1993), pp. 233-234.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Traces the exchange between Great Lakes region Indians and the European cultures they met.  This geographic and cultural location, which White terms “the middle ground,” illustrates the strategic interactions of European and Indian cultures and demonstrates how the two interacted for their mutual benefit in some common forum.