| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867–1877. By Jill St. Germain. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xii + 243 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $45; £30.)

An extraordinary number of studies about North American Native peoples continues to be published. Very few, however, use comparative history for their perspective. Comparing Canadian and American experiences would seem an obvious focus. Hana Samek's The Blackfoot Confederacy 1880–1920: A Comparative Study of Canadian and U.S. Indian Policy (Albuquerque, 1987) is a notable exception. She made the task manageable by looking at a people that straddled the international boundary. 1

Jill St. Germain's monograph, Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867–1877, focuses on the American treaties of Medicine Lodge (1867) and Fort Laramie (1868) and the Canadian seven Numbered Treaties of 1871–7. Having long served as principal instruments of Indian relations for both countries, these treaties established the framework in which Indian relations in the Great Plains were articulated in the 1860s and 1870s. . . .

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