Pen and ink witchcraft : treaties and treaty making in American Indian history

Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon) 1953- (author.).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780199917303 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0199917302 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
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.