During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities-Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans-primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and adventurousness. They were frequently referred to as "the Chiefs now in this city" during their visits, which were sometimes for extended periods of time. Indian people spent a lot of time in town. ColinCalloway, National Book Award finalist and one of the foremost chroniclers of Native American history, has gathered together the accounts of these visits and from them created a new narrative of the country''s formative years, redefining what has been understood as the "frontier." Calloway''s book captures what Native peoples observed as they walked the streets, sat in pews, attended plays, drank in taverns, and slept in hotels and lodging houses. In the Eastern cities they experienced an urban frontier, one in which the Indigenous
