"In this thorough, well-written study of the Native American community of Natick, Massachusettes, Jean O'Brien demonstrates the remarkable evolution in the historical treatment of Indians in New England in the past thirty years....For readers who wish to understand in greater detail how native people came to lose the majority of the vast lands they controlled at the time of the first English settlements in southern New England, this book serves as an admirable case study." North Carolina Historical Review

• Prologue: 'My Land': Natick and the Narrative of Indian Extinction; Chapter 1: Peoples, Land, and Social Order; Chapter 2: The Sinews and the Flesh: Natick Comes Together, 1650–1675; Chapter 3: 'Friend Indians': Negotiating Colonial Rules, 1676–1700; Chapter 4: Divided In Their Desires; Chapter 5: Interlude: The Proprietary Families; Chapter 6: 'They Are So Frequently Shifting Their Place Of Residence': Natick Indians, 1741–1790; Conclusion.