Research Guides: Aboriginal Law & Indigenous Laws: Treaties

Treaties

Indian Treaties in the United States by Donald L. Fixico
Call Number: KIE19 .I53 2018 LAW
Publication Date: 2018
This book examines the treaties that promised self-government, financial assistance, cultural protections, and land to the more than 565 tribes of North America (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada).
Nation to Nation by Suzan Shown Harjo (Editor); Kevin Gover (Contribution by); Philip J. Deloria (Contribution by); Hank Adams (Contribution by); N. Scott Momaday (Contribution by) Nation to Nation- Treaties Between the United States and American Indiansexplores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold on to traditional homelands and ways of life. The book reveals how the ideas of honor, fair dealings, good faith, rule of law, and peaceful relations between nations have been tested and challenged in historical and modern times. The book consistently demonstrates how and why centuries-old treaties remain living, relevant documents for both Natives and non-Natives in the 21st century.
Call Number: KF8202 2014 LAW
Publication Date: 2014
Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of nations, 1604-1664 by Jeffrey Glover
Call Number: E91 .G55 2014 Stauffer
Publication Date: 2014
Drawing on an archive that includes written documents, printed books, orations, landscape markings, wampum beads, tally sticks, and other technologies of political accounting, Glover examines the powerful influence of treaty making along the vibrant and multicultural Atlantic coast of the seventeenth century.
Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty-Making in American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway
Call Number: KF8205 .C35 2013 LAW
Publication Date: 2013
Historian Colin G. Calloway narrates the history of diplomacy between North American Indians and their imperial adversaries, particularly the United States.

Indigenous Digital Archive Treaties Explorer
The US National Archives holds 374 of the treaties, where they are known as the Ratified Indian Treaties. Here you can view them for the first time with key historic works that provide context.