Contents: Cultural Frontiers; Part I - The Flow of History: Events of Contact; Part II - The Framework of Contact: Programs for Civilization; Part III - Results of Contact: The Course of Cultural Change; Part IV - Paths to Civilization: The Processes of Cultural Change.

The kind of interpretation attempted in this volume grew out of a search for answers to the following question: What are the chief ways in which Indians have responded to Western civilization and what has happened to their cultures as a result of contact? The present volume attempts to answer the questions in a broad way for the region as a whole, but with sufficient detail to provide a sense of concreteness regarding the experience of each of the major Indian groups.