Kinship and nationhood : the construction of relationship between Cherokees and settlers, 1768-1788 -- Ungrateful brothers and an uncivilized nation : the Cherokees and settlers reconceive their relationship, 1776-1796 -- Fictive father and Federalism : Cherokees, Tennesseans, and the United States, 1796-1810 -- "The name of my nation is Cherokee" : the reformulation of Cherokee identity -- "The nigger-trader bought me" : African American community -- "A never-failing resource in the benevolence of society" : sociability and family in the Euro-American community -- "The protection of civil government" : governance in the Euro-American community -- "The best security of rising greatness" : economic relations in the Euro-American community