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By Jill St. Germain

ISBN-10: 0803215894

ISBN-13: 9780803215894

Damaged Treaties is a comparative overview of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation targeting the 1st decade following the United States–Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six among Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the “broken treaties” label imposed by means of nineteenth-century observers and perpetuated within the ancient literature has obscured the implementation event of either local and non-Native members and distorted our figuring out of the relationships among them. accordingly, historians have neglected the position of the Treaty of 1868 because the software wherein the us and the Lakotas mediated the cultural divide isolating them within the interval among 1868 and 1875. In discounting the treaty historians have additionally did not have fun with the wider context of U.S. politics, which undermined a treaty method to the Black Hills situation in 1876. In Canada, nonetheless, the “broken treaties” culture has obscured the fairly diversified realizing of Treaty Six held via Canada and the Plains Cree. the lack of both get together to understand the other’s place fostered the harmful false impression that culminated within the Northwest uprising of 1885. within the first serious review of the implementation of those treaties, damaged Treaties restores Indian treaties to a crucial place within the research of Native–non-Native relatives within the usa and Canada. (20100601)

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S. needs by removing the Indians north of the major lines of east-west immigrant traflc, but it was also expected to encourage permanent settlement, thus contributing to a lasting peace. Terms “to insure 27 the civilization of the Indians” were the lnal component of the blueprint for peace on the Plains. Through the autumn of 1867 and into the spring of 1868 the Peace Commission worked assiduously to achieve these goals and on the occasion of major councils with the Lakotas made plain its intentions.

The Lakotas, originally a woodlands people from Wisconsin and Minnesota, had begun to move westward in the eighteenth century and were permanently located west of the Missouri River by 1833. Their lrst recorded sighting of the Black Hills came in 1775, and within lfty years they had driven the Kiowa and Crow from that territory and claimed it for their own. By the 1850s, the Brules were pushing south into the Platte River Valley of Nebraska, the Oglalas were pressing into the Powder River region in eastern Wyoming, and the Hunkpapas were making inroads against the Crow in the Yellowstone River Valley to the north in Montana.

5 Until the early 1800s, Lakotas’ access to direct trade with Europeans and Americans was limited, but the establishment in 1809 of the American Fur Company led to more regular trade relations along the Missouri River and expanded westward with the Lakotas, as indicated by the founding of Fort Laramie on the Wyoming plains in 1834. 6 By the time the United States and the Lakotas came together for treaty talks in 1867, they had sixty years of sporadic but formal relations behind them. -Indian relations on the Great Plains, it was a history characterized by war and peace and littered with treaties.

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