Preface ix Hands and Hearts Joined Together, 1730 3 Excerpt from the Articles of Friendship ^Commerce ... 7 Answer of the Indian Chiefs ... 11 Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Alexander Cuming of Culter, Baronet 1 3 The Price of a White Shirt, 1751-S3 15 “List of the Prices of Goods” 17 Excerpt from Governor Glen’s talks with Little Carpenter ... 19 A Second Peace, 1761-62 32 Excerpts from The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake 35 Welcome in Their Country As a Friend and Brother,. 1776 48 Excerpt from William Bartram’s Travels through North &. South Carolina, Georgia, East &JVest Florida ... 50 Too Near the Shore, 1780 61 Excerpts from John Donelson’s Journal of a Voyage ... 63 A Pipe and a Little Tobacco, 1785 73 Excerpts from talks at the Treaty of Hopewell 75 Blood Is Spilt at Both of Our Houses, 1793 86 Reports concerning the attack on Hanging Maw’s house 89 According to the Law of This Country, 1801—02 101 Excerpts from the daybook of Return J. Meigs 104 An Ardent Zeal, 1818 115 Report on the Brainerd Mission ... US Letter from Catharine Brown to William and Flora Chamberlain at the Brainerd Mission 1 24 To Rise from Their Ashes ,1828-31 127 Excerpts from the Cherokee Phoenix 130 The Manly Game of Ball-playing, 1848 141 Excerpt from Charles Lanman’s Letters From the Alleghany Mountains 142 Sound from the Distant Mountains: The Cherokee Storytellers, 1887-90 148 “The First Fire” 152 “The Ice Man” 154 “The Removed Townhouses” 155 Endnotes 158 Bibliography 169 Index 173