Acknoweldgments -- Introduction: Definitions of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, and War Crimes in Modern World History -- The Native New World -- European Penetration of the New World -- Interregnum: Natives and a Reformed Colonial Land Policy -- A New King of Ethnic Cleanings: The Frontier "Rangers" and the Assault on Native America -- The American Invasion -- The Jeffersonians and the Removal Game -- The Great Land Grab -- Unscabbarding the Bayonet: Andrew Jackson and the Policy of Forced Ethnic Cleansing -- The Western Domain: Indian Country -- The Stealing of a Golden Land: Ethnic Cleasing in California -- The "Diminishment" of the Native Domain: Oregon and Washington -- The Great Plains: War Crimes, Reservations, Peace Commissions, and Reformers -- The "Peace Policy": Benevolent Ethnic Cleansing -- The Red River "Wars": The Collapse of the Peace Policy -- General Sheridan and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Northern Lakota Sioux -- The Indians' "Last Stand" against Ethnic Cleansing -- Epilogue: Allotment and the Final Ethnic Cleansing of America -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index