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White man's paper trail : grand councils and treaty-making on the Central Plains /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoig, Stan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2006]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Great Plains > History > 19th century > Sources.
Indians of North America > Great Plains > Treaties.
Indians of North America > Great Plains > Government relations.
Treaties > United States > History > 19th century > Sources.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
United States > Politics and government > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • U.S. Indian treaties : an essay
  • The early friendship pacts
  • A pathway to the plains
  • Probing the buffalo prairie
  • Council on the Canadian
  • Sam Houston and the Indians
  • Expelling the Texas tribes
  • Fort Laramie and the road west
  • Protecting the Santa Fe trade
  • For Colorado gold
  • Redefining Indian territory
  • The Cheyenne resistance
  • War and peace on the platte
  • A "manifest falsehood"
  • Red Cloud's demand
  • By a sweep of the sword
  • And the stroke of a pen
  • Conclusion: A racial parallel.