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...

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