White Man’s Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains

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White Man’s Paper Trail presents a poignant history of the U.S. government’s attempts to peacefully negotiate treaties with tribes in Missouri, Arkansas, the Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Stan Hoig shows how treaty making, once considered a viable method of peaceably resolving conflicts, degenerated into a deeply flawed system sullied by political deceptions and broken promises. White Man’s Paper Trail illuminates the pivotal role of treaty negotiations in the buildup to the Plains Indian wars, in American Indians’ loss of land and self-determination, and in Euro-American westward expansion.