Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Map: The Mohawk Valley and environs, 1670-1755
  • Map: The Two Hendricks' wider world
  • Introduction: Fame and Obscurity
  • Chapter 1. New Birth
  • Land of shadows
  • The French ascendancy
  • Covenant Chain
  • Protestant Mohawks
  • Woeful war
  • The Albany swindle
  • Hendrick's nadir
  • Neutrality
  • Chapter 2. Odyssey
  • "Great veneration"
  • "Glorious enterprise"
  • Queen and court
  • City and country
  • Hendrick's transformation
  • Inglorious enterprise
  • Fort and chapel
  • Schoharie lands
  • Eclipse
  • Backcountry crises
  • Boston and Maine
  • The land under their feet
  • End of days
  • Chapter 3. Hendrick's War
  • Origins of the Iroquois myth
  • The transformation of Mohawk country
  • William Johnson and the Mohawk Valley
  • Hendrick Peters Theyanoguin
  • Stretching the chain
  • Calls to war
  • Warraghiyagey
  • Hatchet in hand
  • The failure of arms
  • Chapter 4. Apotheosis
  • Politics and prisoners
  • The decline of Mohawk influence
  • The chain gathers rust
  • Stockbridge
  • The stakes are raised
  • The chain broken
  • Covenant Chain and empire
  • The road to the Albany Congress
  • Exhortation and acquiescence
  • Apotheosis
  • Light and shadow
  • Conclusion: Memory and Meaning
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index