United States: U.S. Treaty Making With American Indians - Institutional Change And Relative Power, 1784–1911
United States: U.S. Treaty Making With American Indians - Institutional Change And Relative Power, 1784–1911 Arthur Spirling, 2012 Native Americans are unique among domestic actors in that their relations with the U.S. government involve treaty making, with almost 600 such documents signed between the Revolutionary War and the turn of the twentieth century. We investigate the effect of constitutional changes to the treating process in 1871, by which Congress stripped the president...For the rest of the article, as well as maps, images, related items, and videos, please visit Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources.