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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 largely on the historical treaty relations 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, fills that gap with this impeccable history.
Sommario
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN FOOTNOTES
INTRODUCTION:
THE ANOMALY OF INDIAN TREATIES
PART ONE. A TREATY SYSTEM
1
The Revolutionary War Years
2
Treaties of Peace after the Revolution
3
Treaty-Making Procedures under the Constitution
4
Confirming the Procedures: Other Treaties in the 1790s
PART TWO.
INSTRUMENTS OF FEDERAL POLICY
5
Testing the Treaty System: 1800 to the War of 1812
6
A Position of Dominance: The War of 1812 and After
7
Indian Removal and the Debate about Treaty Making
8
The Removal Period in the North
9
Patterns in Treaty Making
10
Treaties in the Expanding West
11
The Civil War Decade
PART THREE. DETERIORATION
12
The End of Treaty Making
13
Treaty Substitutes
14
The Collapse of the Treaty System
PART FOUR. RENEWAL:
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
15
Treaties in the New Century
16
Treaties before the Supreme Court
17
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
Info autore
Francis Paul Prucha, S.J. (1921-2015) was Professor Emeritus of History at Marquette University. Among his many books is The Indians in American Society: From the Revolutionary War to the Present.
Riassunto
American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today. The unique legal status of American Indians rests largely on the historical treaty relations between Indian tribes and the federal government. This history details these treaties and their role in American life.
Testo aggiuntivo
"By the end of the book, the reader will have a much better understanding of how the policies, resources, and sheer brute force of the federal government manifested in treaties with Native Americans played a central part in the history of 'civilizing' the American 'wilderness.'"
