Native American Treaties
The recently published Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations, a website hosted by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, fills a gap in online treaty coverage. Charles J. Kappler's Indian Affairs: Law and Treaties is the standard resource for the full-text of treaties between American Indian tribes and the United States government. The Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center digitized those five volumes, which cover treaties created between 1778 and 1868 and published in Statutes at Large, and made them freely available on the Internet. However, they do not include nine treaties created between 1722 and 1805 that were not published in the Statutes at Large. The Early Recognized Treaties website completes the collection with the nine treaties available in HTML with picture images of each print page.
Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is available in the Hastings library in two print publications [See KF8203 1975 (5th Stacks) & KF8203 1972 (5th Stacks).] Volumes list ratified and unratified treaties, executive agreements, proclamations and other matters relating to Indian affairs. Kappler is also available at the Oklahoma State University Library website.
• Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations - This website includes the texts of the nine remaining treaties, created between the years 1722 and 1805.
• Yale University's Avalon Project has a searchable database of treaties between the United States and Native Americans pre-18th Century to the present.
Last updated
August 22, 2008
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