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

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Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953-
Published
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press Inc., 2013.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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1 online resource (352 pages)
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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.
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.
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0199917302
9780199917303
9781299539174 (MyiLibrary)
1299539173 (MyiLibrary)
9780199917310
0199917310 (electronic bk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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