Describes the Native American tribes of the Northeast, the Narraganset, the Abnaki, the Iroquois, and the Nanticoke, and the influence on them of their early contact with Europeans.

In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples...