The Indians’ New World

“One of the most carefully crafted and smoothly written narratives I have ever read.” — James Axtell, The Journal of Southern History

“This thoroughly researched and gracefully written book sets a new standard in American Indian history.” — Daniel Usner, Journal of American Ethnic History

“Working with difficult evidence and supplementing his reading of the historical record with material from anthropology, folklore, and archaeology, Merrell has produced a well-written and impressive study.” — Colin Calloway, The Journal of American History

“The Indians' New World became, at the time of its publication, an instant classic. The story it tells of the Catawbas — balancing agency with victimization, triumph with trauma — can serve as a microcosm of Native American history at large. Deeply researched, beautifully constructed, written with both power and grace, it has lost none of its lustre today.” — John Demos, Yale University

“The title says it. . . . By choosing as his protagonists a new people, the Catawbas, who emerged from encounter with Europeans, Merrell made change the central story. In the process, he gave historians a new world, too.” — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University