Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History

by Colin G. Calloway

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199917302
• ISBN13: 9780199917303
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"