Francis Paul Prucha, S.J. is Professor Emeritus of Histor at Marquette University. Among his many books is The Indians in American Society: From the Revolutionary War to the Present (California, 1985).

"Prucha . . . has tried to write a dispassionate history, and in these four succinct and readable essays he succeeds in a way that partisans cannot."

• 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 Appendices Index Picture Credits

Francis Paul Prucha, S.J. is Professor Emeritus of Histor at Marquette University. Among his many books is The Indians in American Society: From the Revolutionary War to the Present (California, 1985).

"Prucha . . . has tried to write a dispassionate history, and in these four succinct and readable essays he succeeds in a way that partisans cannot."

• 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 Appendices Index Picture Credits

Francis Paul Prucha, S.J. is Professor Emeritus of Histor at Marquette University. Among his many books is The Indians in American Society: From the Revolutionary War to the Present (California, 1985).

"Prucha . . . has tried to write a dispassionate history, and in these four succinct and readable essays he succeeds in a way that partisans cannot."

• 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 Appendices Index Picture Credits