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Native American Treaties

This page lists sources of treaties that are available either in print or online. Its purpose is to help identify sources for research. It is not a legal guide.

Guides

  • BIA Records: Idaho – National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
  • How to Find Treaties – National Indian Law Library
  • Nancy Carol Carter (1985) American Indian Law, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 4:4, 5-71, DOI: 10.1300/J113v04n04_02.
  • Basic Indian Law Research Tips — Part 1: Federal Indian Law. https://narf.org/nill/resources/federal_indian_law_research_guide.pdf. Accessed November 30, 2018.

Miscellaneous Sources

  • Buckley, Jay H., “Review of Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979 Edited by Vine DeloriaJr. and Raymond J. DeMallie” (2001). Great Plains Quarterly. 2215. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/2215. Accessed November 30, 2018.
  • Codification, Annotation, and Revision of Indian Laws. Prepared by the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives in compliance with House resolution no. 134, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Revision of the Laws. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917.
  • Deloria, Vine, Raymond J. DeMallie, and Daniel K. Inouye. Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979. University of Oklahoma Press. 1999.
  • Gasaway, Laura N. (University of Oklahoma), James L. Hoover (Columbia University), Dorothy M. Worden (University of New Mexico). American Indian Legal Materials: A Union List. Stanfordville, NY: Earl M. Coleman, 1980.
  • Hosen, Frederick E. Rifle, Blanket and Kettle: Selected Indian Treaties and Laws. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1985.
  • Nancy Carol Carter (1985) American Indian Law, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 4:4, 5-71, DOI: 10.1300/J113v04n04_02.
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Native American Programs
  • Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reserves from May 14, 1855, to JULY 1, 1902. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1902.Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/34008449/ 

Kappler’s Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties

The War of the Rebellion, or Official Records of the Confederate and Union Armies

This resource is part of the Congressional Serial Set. It mostly consists of reports from the Civil War but also includes a few reports from the Indian Wars.

  • The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Published under the direction of the Secretary of War. United States War Department. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off, 1880-1901.
  • The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Making of America. Cornell University Library. http://collections.library.cornell.edu/moa_new/waro.html. Accessed December 12, 2018.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899.

https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/indianserialset

  • This online resource provided by the University of Oklahoma College of Law includes: Senate Reports, House of Representatives Documents, Senate Documents, House of Representatives Reports, House of Representatives Executive Documents, Senate Executive Documents, House of Representatives Miscellaneous Documents, Senate Miscellaneous Documents, and Maps and Illustrations.

Revision of Indian Treaties, 1873

  • A compilation of all the treaties between the United States and the Indian tribes, now in force as laws. Prepared under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1873…Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1873.
  • An Act to provide for the preparation and presentation to Congress of the Revision of the laws of the United States, consolidating the Laws relating to the Postroads, and a Code relating to Military Offenses, and the Revision of Treaties with the Indian Tribes now in force. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1873.
  • The Treaty Making Power of the United States: pt. 1. Historical review of the treaty-making power of the United States. New York, NY: The Banks Law Publishing Co., 1902. page xxxii.

Department of the Interior Reports

  • Annual Reports of the Office of Indian Affairs. 1839-1943.
  • Annual Report of the Department of the Interior, 1933-1937. Includes Annual Reports of the Office of Indian Affairs.
  • Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior.
  • BIA Records: Idaho. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). https://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/bia-guide/idaho.html. Accessed December 3, 2018.

Indian Claims Commission, Department of Justice

  • Guide to Records of the Indian Claims Commission, National Archives
  • Fuller, E.O., and Angelo Anastasio, Carling Malouf, Merrill G. Burlingame, Paul C. Phillips, Stuart A. Chalfant, Stuart A. Chalfant, Verne F. Ray, William N. Bischoff. Interior Salish and Eastern Washington Indians. Garland American Indian Ethnohistory Series. Volumes I through IV. Commission findings. New York: Garland Pub. Inc., 1974. RNW 970.3 IN8
  • Index to Indian Claims Commission Decisions (includes 1976 supplement). Native American Rights Fund, Inc. 1973-1976. https://www.narf.org/nill/documents/ICC/index_to_icc.pdf. Accessed November 30, 2018.
  • Records of the Indian Claims Commission. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/279.html
  • Lead up to the Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946. United States Department of Justice. Updated May 12, 2015. https://www.justice.gov/enrd/lead-indian-claims-commission-act-1946. Accessed November 30, 2018.
  • Index to Indian Claims Commission Decisions Native American Rights Fund, Inc., 1973-1976. https://www.narf.org/nill/documents/ICC/index_to_icc.pdf
  • The Coeur D’Alene Indian Reservation. Fairfield, Wash.: Ye Galleon Press, 1970. Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate); 51st Congress, 1st session, no. 14.

Indian Land Sessions, 1896-97

  • Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-97. Part 2. GOV DOC SI 2.1: 1997/2.
  • Indian Land Sessions. USGenWeb Archives, United States Digital Map Library. http://usgwarchives.net/maps/cessions/
  • Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894. United States Serial Set, Number 4015. American Memory, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss-ilc.html

National Archives

  • Office of Indian Affairs Treaty File https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/075.html
  • RG 11: General Records of the U.S. Government https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/011.html
  • Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States. https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records

Treaties with the Confederate States

  • Treaties Portal http://treatiesportal.unl.edu/csaindiantreaties/index.html

Treaties with Canada

  • Treaties and agreements https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100028574/1529354437231#chp3
    Price, Richard. The spirit of the Alberta Indian treaties. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta Press, 1999. 3rd ed. KEA529 .S65 1999

This page updated by rjoiner on October 26, 2020.