Bibliograph

Pen and ink witchcraft, treaties and treaty making in American Indian history, Colin G. Calloway

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Pen and ink witchcraft, treaties and treaty making in American Indian history, Colin G. Calloway

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-350) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pen and ink witchcraft

Nature of contents

treatiesbibliography

Oclc number

812070127

Responsibility statement

Colin G. Calloway

Sub title

treaties and treaty making in American Indian history

Summary

Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties seem like well-ordered steps on the path of dispossession and empire. The reality was far more complicated. In Pen and Ink Witchcraft, eminent Native American historian Colin G. Calloway narrates the history of diplomacy between North American Indians and their imperial adversaries, particularly the United States

Table Of Contents

Treaty making in colonial America : the many languages of Indian diplomacy -- Fort Stanwix, 1768 : shifting boundaries -- Treaty making, American-style -- New Echota, 1835 : implementing removal -- Treaty making in the West -- Medicine lodge, 1867 : containment on the plains -- Conclusion : the death and rebirth of Indian treaties -- Appendix: the treaties

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