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Francis Paul Prucha, a leading authority at the history of American Indian affairs, argues that the treaties were a political anomaly from the very beginning. The term “treaty” implies a contract between sovereign independent nations, yet Indians were all the time able of inequality and dependence as negotiators, a fact that complicates their current attempts to regain their rights and tribal sovereignty.
Prucha’s impeccably researched book, in accordance with a close analysis of each treaty, makes imaginable a thorough understanding of a legal quandary whose legacy is so palpably felt lately.