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Pen and ink witchcraft : treaties and treaty making in American Indian history
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- ISBN: 9780199917303 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0199917302 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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xii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: Oxford, UK ; Oxford University Press, [2013]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-350) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Treaty Making in Colonial America: The Many Languages of Indian Diplomacy -- 2. Fort Stanwix, 1768: Shifting Boundaries -- 3. Treaty Making, American-Style -- 4. New Echota, 1835: Implementing Removal -- 5. Treaty Making in the West -- 6. Medicine Lodge, 1867: Containment on the Plains. |
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| Subject: | Indians of North America -- Treaties Indians of North America -- Treaties Indianer Vertragsschluss USA |
| Genre: | Treaties. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| The Pas Campus Library | KIE 20 .C35 2013 (Text) | 58500000465427 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
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A Native American historian examines the history of diplomacy between North American Indians and their imperial adversaries, particularly the United States. - Oxford University Press
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. Treaties were cultural encounters and human dramas, each with its cast of characters and conflicting agendas. Many treaties, he notes, involved not land, but trade, friendship, and the resolution of disputes. Far from all being one-sided, they were negotiated on the Indians' cultural and geographical terrain. When the Mohawks welcomed Dutch traders in the early 1600s, they sealed a treaty of friendship with a wampum belt with parallel rows of purple beads, representing the parties traveling side-by-side, as equals, on the same river. But the American republic increasingly turned treaty-making into a tool of encroachment on Indian territory. Calloway traces this process by focusing on the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1768), New Echota (1835), and Medicine Lodge (1867), in addition to such events as the Peace of Montreal in 1701 and the treaties of Fort Laramie (1851 and 1868). His analysis demonstrates that native leaders were hardly dupes. The records of negotiations, he writes, show that "Indians frequently matched their colonizing counterparts in diplomatic savvy and tried, literally, to hold their ground."
Each treaty has its own story, Calloway writes, but together they tell a rich and complicated tale of moments in American history when civilizations collided. - Oxford University Press
Pen and Ink Witchcraft provides a comprehensive survey of Indian treaty relations in America and traces the stories and the individuals behind key treaties that represent distinct phases in the shifting history of treaty making and the transfer of Indian homelands into American real estate.
