Description
Book SynopsisProvides a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States-Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree. Jill St. Germain argues that the “broken treaties” label has obscured the implementation experience of participants and distorted our understanding of the relationships between them.
Trade Review"In challenging the long-honored "broken treaties tradition," Jill St. Germain has written a groundbreaking and welcome revision of the history of treaty- and reservation-making on both sides of the United States-Canadian border. . . .
Broken Treaties is a must read for any scholar interested in the history of the Great Plains, federal policy, the western United States, western Canada, or Indigenous studies."—Laura Woodworth-Ney,
Great Plains Quarterly"[
Broken Treaties] is a strong piece of scholarship that joins the recent work of Jeffrey Ostler, David G. McCrady, and others in enhancing our historical understanding of a period and topic that has long been studied but frequently misinterpreted."—Akim D. Reinhardt,
American Historical Review"Well written and researched from primary sources in both the United States and Canada, this volume reminds us how significant tribal sovereignty was and how it continues to inform tribal governments today." —Donald L. Fixico,
Western Historical Quarterly"St. Germain has made an important contribution to a growing field of literature that emphasizes the active role taken by native statesmen in seeking to shape those crucial agreements that defined the straitened world left them at the end of the nineteenth century." —Kingsley M. Bray,
Nebraska History"This study captivate the reader's attention with its sharp analysis based on extensive research and thorough command of the subject."—Janne Lahti,
Canadian Journal of History"This is a complex, well-written, and carefully researched book that interprets one of the most enigmatic issues in the still-convoluted relationship between native and European peoples in North America: treaties and the treaty process."—Sidney L. Harring,
Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Maps
Acknowledgments
Maps
Introduction: Broken Treaties
1. Separate Pasts
2. Expectations and Promises
3. Early Implementation Efforts in the United States, 1868-1871
4. Early Implementation Efforts in Canada, 1876-1878
5. Implementation in Earnest: The Treaty of 1868, 1871-1875
6. Implementation in Earnest: Treaty Six, 1879-1884
7. The Treaty of 1868 and the Peace Policy, 1875-1876
8. Treaty Six and the Northwest Rebellion, 1885
Conclusion
Appendix A: Treaty with the Sioux, 1868
Appendix B: Treaties at Forts Carlton and Pitt, Number Six, 1876
Notes
Bibliography
Index
