| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains. By Stan Hoig. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xviii, 245 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-87081-829-5.)

This is Stan Hoig's latest narrative history of the Indians of the central Plains, and in it he examines the treaties with the United States signed from 1815 (the date of William Clark's great intertribal treaty council at Portage des Sioux) to 1871 (when Congress ended the practice of Indian treaty making). Hoig also looks at treaties with the Republic of Texas and the Confederate States of America. The book focuses primarily on the Comanches and Kiowas, the Cheyennes and Arapahos, and the Sioux. Most narrative histories of this period focus on the conflicts between Indians and whites; the uniqueness of Hoig's narrative is its focus on peacemaking, rather than conflict: White Man's Paper Trail is a kind of antihistory of the Indian wars.

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