A critical examination of events in Colonial Trans-Appalachia. The region geographically encompassed by the territories west of the Appalachian Mountain Range and east of the Mississippi River. At the time of the French and Indian War facilitates analysis of regime formation amongst Amerindian and European colonists. This book examines the effects of contact on Amerindian and European polities in a form that seeks relevance to contemporary issues such decolonization and indigenous status. It draws on historical time-lines that pre and post date the French and Indian War including the American Revolution. It argues how distinctive decision making structures used by Amerindian and European societies provide preliminary models for understanding how their respective forms of socio-political organization conditioned political relationships, e.g. heterarchical (HT) and hierarchical (HR) forms.