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• ISBN: 0520208951
• ISBN: 9780520208957
• Physical Description: xvi, 562 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
• Edition: First paperback print.
• Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, ©1994.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part One. A treaty system -- Revolutionary war years -- Treaties of peace after the revolution -- Treaty-making procedures under the constitution -- Confirming the procedures: other treaties in the 1790s -- Part two. Instruments of federal policy -- Testing the treaty system: 1800 to 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 -- Part Three. Deterioration -- The end of treaty making -- Treaty substitutes -- The collapse of the treaty system -- Part Four. Renewal: the Twentieth century -- Treaties in the new century -- Treaties before the supreme court -- Treaty-rights activism.

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Indians of North America > Treaties > History.