'Times Are Altered with Us'

• Considers the interactions of American Indians at many pointsof 'First Contact' across North America, from the Gulf of Mexico tothe Pacific and Atlantic Coasts
• Explores the early years of contact, trade, reciprocity, andcolonization, from initial engagement of different Indian andEuropean peoples—Spanish, French, Dutch, English, andRussian—up to the start of tenuous and stormy relations withthe new American government
• Charts the rapid decline in American Indian populations due tofactors including epidemic Old World diseases, genocide and warfareby explorers and colonists, tribal warfare, and the detrimentaleffects of resource ruination and displacement from traditionallands
• Features a completely up-to-date synthesis of the literature ofthe field
• Incorporates useful student features, including maps,illustrations, and a comprehensive and evaluative BibliographicalEssay
• Written in an engaging style by an expert in Native Americanhistory and designed for use in both the U.S. history survey aswell as dedicated courses in Native American studies

Roger M. Carpenter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, where he teaches Native American and Early American History. He is the author of The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Huron and the Iroquois, 1609-1650 (2004) and American Indian History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events (2012).