1. A heavily forested and thinly peopled land -- 2. Mobile hunter-gatherers : Paleoindian and Early Archaic -- 3. Sedentary hunter-gatherers : Middle to Late Archaic -- 4. Builders of burial mounds and earthworks : Early to Middle Woodland -- 5. Villagers facing great change : Late Woodland -- 6. Chiefs come to power : Mississippian -- 7. Northern villagers : Late Prehistory -- 8. A trail of tears : Native American and European contact.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-218) and index.
