Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-309) and index.
Romantic Indians and their inventors -- Historians and philosophers -- War stories and tales from the frontier -- Travellers' tales and traders' memoirs -- Indian bones and what white men saw in them -- Indians and the politics of romance -- Native patriarchs, pantisocracy and the Americanization of Wales -- The Indian song -- Shamans and superstitions -- White men and Indian women -- Political Indians -- The mission to civilize and the colonial romance -- John Norton/Teyoninhokarawen -- A son of the forest : William Apess -- Captive, campaigner, Conman : John Hunter -- Peter Jones/Kah-ke-wa-quo-na-by -- John Tanner/Shaw-shaw-wa-be-nase -- Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh/George copway