"Colonialism has the power to corrupt. This important new work argues that even the early Quakers, who had a belief system rooted in social justice, committed structural and cultural violence against their Indigenous neighbors" Introduction. Quaker settler-colonialism: its disastrous impacts on American Indians --1.Quaker and Lenape peacemaking in the 1700s: why Quakers didn't hear --2.Quaker governance: peace, politeness, or politics? --3.The failure of the Pennsylvania government: the Conestoga massacres --4.The subversive effects of colonial ideology: early Quaker attitudes toward American Indians --5.Quaker beliefs, colonialism, and American Indian education: contributing to cultural genocide --6.The universality of peacemaking: hope for social justice? --7.A feeling of rightness: Quaker/Indigenous relations, past, present and future.