Introduction: John or Teyoninhokarawen? -- Policies to limit race mixture in early North America from earliest times to 1776 -- Becoming sons and daughters of the forest : racial mixture in the American colonies and revolutionary states from earliest times to the 1830s -- "Dark-eyed Houris of the Metiff blood" : mixed bloods as "halfbreed" outcasts -- Mixed bloods and a "middle ground" of acculturation -- Mixed bloods and the rise of racial formalism : from Jefferson to Jackson -- Defenders of the homeland and racial pluralists, or, "A pascle of designing speculating individuals?" : mixed-blood leaders, racial formalism, and federal removal policy -- Epilogue: Mixed bloods after the era of the removals
Summary
The Native Americans of mixed ancestry in 1830 and why Andrew Jackson implemented a law to remove them
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references pages (374-425) and index
