American Indian Treaties The History of a Political Anomaly

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN FOOTNOTES
INTRODUCTION:
THE ANOMALY OF INDIAN TREATIES

PART ONE. A TREATY SYSTEM
1
The Revolutionary War Years
2
Treaties of Peace after the Revolution
3
Treaty-Making Procedures under the Constitution
4
Confirming the Procedures: Other Treaties in the 1790s

PART TWO.
INSTRUMENTS OF FEDERAL POLICY
5
Testing the Treaty System: 1800 to the War of 1812
6
A Position of Dominance: The War of 1812 and After
7
Indian Removal and the Debate about Treaty Making
8
The Removal Period in the North
9
Patterns in Treaty Making
10
Treaties in the Expanding West
11
The Civil War Decade

PART THREE. DETERIORATION
12
The End of Treaty Making
13
Treaty Substitutes
14
The Collapse of the Treaty System

PART FOUR. RENEWAL:
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
15
Treaties in the New Century
16
Treaties before the Supreme Court
17
Treaty-Rights Activism

APPENDIX A. TREATY DOCUMENTS
AND THEIR PROMULGATION
APPENDIX B.
RATIFIED INDIAN TREATIES
APPENDIX C. RATIFIED AGREEMENTS
WITH INDIAN TRIBES, 1872-1911
APPENDIX D. UNRATIFIED TREATIES
SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF
AMERICAN INDIAN TREATIES
INDEX
PICTURE CREDITS