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American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today—hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes and the federal government, until now there has been no comprehensive history of these treaties and their role in American life.
Francis Paul Prucha, a leading authority on the history of American Indian affairs, argues that the treaties were a political anomaly from the very beginning. The term "treaty" implies a contract between sovereign independent nations, yet Indians were always in a position of inequality and dependence as negotiators, a fact that complicates their current attempts to regain their rights and tribal sovereignty.
Prucha's impeccably researched book, based on a close analysis of every treaty, makes possible a thorough understanding of a legal dilemma whose legacy is so palpably felt today.
American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today—hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historica
Francis Paul Prucha, a leading authority on the history of American Indian affairs, argues that the treaties were a political anomaly from the very beginning. The term "treaty" implies a contract between sovereign independent nations, yet Indians were always in a position of inequality and dependence as negotiators, a fact that complicates their current attempts to regain their rights and tribal sovereignty.
Prucha's impeccably researched book, based on a close analysis of every treaty, makes possible a thorough understanding of a legal dilemma whose legacy is so palpably felt today.
American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today—hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historica
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations Used in Footnotes
- Introduction The Anomaly of Indian Treaties
- PART ONE A Treaty System
- CHAPTER ONE The Revolutionary War Years
- CHAPTER TWO Treaties of Peace after the Revolution
- CHAPTER THREE Treaty-Making Procedures under the Constitution
- CHAPTER FOUR Confirming the Procedures Other Treaties in the 1790s
- PART TWO Instruments of Federal Policy
- CHAPTER FIVE Testing the Treaty System 1800 to the War of 1812
- CHAPTER SIX A Position of Dominance The War of 1812 and After
- CHAPTER SEVEN Indian Removal and the Debate about Treaty Making
- CHAPTER EIGHT The Removal Period in the North
- CHAPTER NINE Patterns in Treaty Making
- CHAPTER TEN Treaties in the Expanding West
- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Civil War Decade
- PART THREE Deterioration
- CHAPTER TWELVE The End of Treaty Making
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Treaty Substitutes
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Collapse of the Treaty System
- PART FOUR Renewal: The Twentieth Century
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Treaties in the New Century
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Treaties before the Supreme Court
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Treaty-Rights Activism
- APPENDIX A Treaty Documents and Their Promulgation
- APPENDIX B Ratified Indian Treaties
- APPENDIX C Ratified Agreements with Indian Tribes, 1872-1911
- APPENDIX D Unratified Treaties
- Sources for the Study of American Indian Treaties
- Index
- Picture Credits