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Contents
Preface x
List of Indians introduced in Volume I xvii
Acknowledgments xviii
A note on spelling conventions xx
GUIDED CHANGE AND THE COMPANY
ONE: The Red River School and the Post:Guided Change and the
Company 2
TWO: Toward a Stronger, Yet Responsive, Chieftaincy 15
THREE: Contested Loyalties in the Fur Wars 28
THE MISSIONARY PROGRAMS
FOUR: Founding of the Protestant Missions 42
FIVE: Developing Relationships at Waiilatpu and Lapwai 53
SIX: Indian Allies and Opponents at Waiilatpu 64
SEVEN: The Confrontation of 1841 and Its Sequels 71
A NEW ORDER EMERGES
EIGHT: Freemen and Company Servants 80
NINE: Overland Emigrants 88
TEN: The Emigrant Road 94
ELEVEN: The Overlanders in Indian Eyes 107
TWELVE: Company Views of the Overlanders 117
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS
THIRTEEN: Elijah White and His "Nez Perce Laws" 128
FOURTEEN: The Wallawalla and the Cayuse Adopt the "Laws" 138
FIFTEEN: The "Laws" in Action: Piupiumaksmaks and McKinlay 145
SIXTEEN: The "Laws" in Action: The Wascos and Cockstock's Revenge
149
SEVENTEEN: The "Laws" in Action: Piupiumaksmaks and Sutter 156
THE CAYUSE WAR
EIGHTEEN: The Attack on the Waiilatpu Station 168
NINETEEN: Edward Teloukaikt and a Village in Flux 176
TWENTY: Preparations for a War 183
TWENTY-ONE: The March to Waiilatpu 191
TWENTY-TWO: The Council of the Peace Commissioners 200
TWENTY-THREE: Fruitless Pursuit in the Hills 205
TWENTY-FOUR: Governor Lane Ends the War 216
ADMINISTERING THE INDIANS
TWENTY-FIVE: The "Indian Problem" in Western Oregon and Federal
Solutions 228
TWENTY-SIX: The Indian Scene in the Willamette Valley in the 1850s
236
TWENTY-SEVEN: The Utilla Agency 242
TWENTY-EIGHT: Indian Agents, Army Officers, and Bourgeois in the
Upper Country 250
