Indians in American Society From the Revolutionary War to the Present

Name: Indians in American Society From the Revolutionary War to the Present
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ISBN: 9780520063440

ISBN-10: 0520063449

ISBN-13: 9780520063440

Edition: 1987

Authors: Francis Paul Prucha

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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…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/25/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 0.51" wide x 0.80" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Abbreviations


Used in Footnotes


Introduction: The Anomaly of Indian Treaties



A Treaty System



The Revolutionary War Years



Treaties of Peace after the Revolution



Treaty-Making Procedures under the Constitution



Confirming the Procedures: Other Treaties in the 1790s



Instruments Of Federal Policy



Testing the Treaty System: 1800 to the War of 1812



A Position of Dominance: The War of 1812 and After



Indian Removal and the Debate about Treaty Making



The Removal Period in the North



Patterns in Treaty Making



Treaties in the Expanding West



The Civil War Decade



Deterioration



The End of Treaty Making



Treaty Substitutes



The Collapse of the Treaty System



Renewal: The Twentieth Century



Treaties in the New Century



Treaties before the Supreme Court



Treaty-Rights Activism


Appendices


Index Picture Credits