I don’t apologize for suggesting the book, but I do for continuing the debate on it. Hence I’ve stopped. 
Daniel Richter’s <Facing East From Indian Country> offers a narrative of eastern North America from contact to Indian Removal in the 1830s, framed from an Indigenous point of view.
Pekka Hamalainen’s <Comanche Empire> is an engaging and scholarly book that displays the complexity of European-Indian contact.
if you are interested in St. Augustine, the Spanish southeast and southwest,., the works of David J. Weber are a good introduction (<The Spanish Frontier in North America> balances the traditional focus we have on English colonization and settlement).
I strongly recommend the books that make up the Oxford History of the United States. I’ve read three of them and they’re well-written and well-researched.
I didn’t realize the thread was two years old 
But …its about early American history…so it shouldn’t bother anyone!