Indigenous prosperity and American conquest: Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792

Introduction

The agrarian village world of the Ohio Valley Indians

The evolution of the Indian fur trade : from Green Bay to the Wabash River Valley

Reopening the Western trade

Webs of community : "The Gris and Turtle came to us and breakfasted with us as usual"

Picturing prosperity

Plunder and massacre

Capturing Indian women

Aftermath : "I foresaw, that if I parted with my land, I should reduce the women and children to weeping."