"This is a fine work..." -- David La Vere, University of North Carolina, Wilmington"...the book is of indisputable importance because it highlights the connections between Native groups with diverse modes of making a living that juggled the presence of colonial powers to maximize their position within emergent colonial economies." -- Maria F. Wade, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

• 1. The Colonial Imperative and Indigenous Perspectives 2. Interactions of the Comanches and Hasinais Prior to the Reservation Era 3. Ethnohistoric Interpretations of Post Contact Comanches and Hasinais 4. World Systems Perspective 5. Regional Analysis 6. Social History 7. Conclusion

"This is a fine work..." -- David La Vere, University of North Carolina, Wilmington"...the book is of indisputable importance because it highlights the connections between Native groups with diverse modes of making a living that juggled the presence of colonial powers to maximize their position within emergent colonial economies." -- Maria F. Wade, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

• 1. The Colonial Imperative and Indigenous Perspectives 2. Interactions of the Comanches and Hasinais Prior to the Reservation Era 3. Ethnohistoric Interpretations of Post Contact Comanches and Hasinais 4. World Systems Perspective 5. Regional Analysis 6. Social History 7. Conclusion