Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877 / Jill St. Germain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Germain, Jill St, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Treaty-making power.

United States.

Canada.

Genre:

Treaties.

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations, maps)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Summary:

"Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877 is a comparison of United States and Canadian Indian policies with emphasis on the reasons these governments embarked on treaty-making ventures in the 1860s and 1870s, how they conducted those negotiations, and their results. Jill St. Germain challenges assertions made by the Canadian government in 1877 of the superiority and distinctiveness of Canada's Indian policy compared to that of the United States."--Jacket.

Contents:

Treaty-Making Precedents and Progress

Treaty-Making Problems

The Context of Treaty Making

The Making of the Medicine Lodge, Fort Laramie, and Numbered Treaties

The Role of "Others" in Treaty Making

Reserves

Civilization

Buffalo Preservation, Hunting Rights, and Subsistence

Ratification, Indian Status, and Treaty Making

"Humane, Just, and Christian."

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.

ISBN:

1-4962-4526-1

OCLC:

1534702843

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access