Pen and Ink Witchcraft

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.

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.

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