Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index.
Introduction : Removal and identity -- Indian policy in the United States : removal of difference -- The longest removal -- 'Loss of Independence day' -- Identity (in) crisis? : Delawares in the Cherokee Nation -- History is not over yet : the Delawares and the law -- Indian policy in Mexico : removal of Indianness? -- The will to endure -- Removal of the Yaquis : out of Yaquimi -- Silences from Yucatán -- History is not over yet : the Yaquis and the land -- Removal in comparative perspective -- Survival of the fittest? -- Histories of change and survival