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American Indian treaties : the history of a political anomaly / Francis Paul Prucha.

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  • ISBN: 9780520919167
  • ISBN: 0520919165
  • ISBN: 0585181586
  • ISBN: 9780585181585
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 562 pages, [24] pages of plates) : illustrations, map
  • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-537) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. Deterioration: The end of treaty making ; Treaty substitutes ; The collapse of the treaty system -- pt. 4. Renewal : the twentieth century: Treaties in the new century ; Treaties before the Supreme Court ; Treaty-rights activism.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject:
USA Government
Indians of North America > Treaties > History.
LAW > International.
Indians of North America > Treaties.
Genre:
Electronic books.
History.

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