Gregory Evans Dowd, War Under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Dowd’s account of Pontiac’s war combines a thorough, ethnographically sensitive account of Pontiac and his social contexts with a well-argued analysis of Britain’s approach to Indian relations. He places particular emphasis on the spiritual dimension of the Native American war against British power in the West.

Keith Widder, Beyond Pontiac’s Shadow: Michilimackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013). Widder shifts the focus from Detroit and Fort Pitt, where most historians have concentrated their efforts, to Michilimackinac, which he contends was the hub of the Great Lakes for Native Americans. In a deeply researched and lavishly illustrated book, Widder uses baptismal records, traders’ journals, and official accounts to reconstruct the social networks around Michilimackinac.