• Acknowledgments


• Ch. 1: Treaty Making in Colonial America: The Many Languages of Indian Diplomacy


• Ch. 2: Fort Stanwix, 1768: Shifting Boundaries


• Ch. 3: Treaty Making, American-Style


• Ch. 4: New Echota, 1835: Implementing Removal


• Ch. 5: Treaties in the West


• Ch. 6: Medicine Lodge, 1867: Containment on the Plains


• Ch. 7: The Death and Rebirth of Indian Treaties


• Appendix: The Treaties


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Colin G. Calloway is Professor of Native American Studies and John Kimball Jr. Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His books include One Vast Winter Count: The American West before Lewis and Clark, for which he won the Merle Curti Award and the Ray Allen Billington Prize, The Shawnees and the War for America, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, and New Worlds for All. He recently won the 2011 American Indian History Lifetime Achievement Award.

Pen and Ink Witchcraft provides a comprehensive survey of Indian treaty relations in America and traces the stories and the individuals behind key treaties that represent distinct phases in the shifting history of treaty making and the transfer of Indian homelands into American real estate.