White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains

by Stan Hoig

Book Overview

White Man's Paper Trail presents a poignant history of the U.S. government's attempts to peacefully negotiate treaties with tribes in Arkansas, the Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming.
Stan Hoig shows how treaty-making - once considered a viable method of peaceably resolving conflicts - degenerated into a deeply flawed system sullied by political deceptions and broken promises.

White Man's Paper Trail illuminates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870819054
• ISBN13: 9780870819056
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.7"