Patterson, Dr. Victoria: United States Treaties with Native People
In the 56 years between 1774 and 1832, 368 Treaties were agreed upon between several sovereign nations of the native peoples of North America the United States. Our guest is Victoria Patterson, Ph.D., an ethnologist who has studied the Native People of North America for the past 40 years.
The 368 treaties were attempts to set the borders of the parties and set conditions of their behavior. Once negotiated and consented to by and with the advice and consent of the United States Senate these treaties, like all other treaties, became the supreme law of the land.
Conciliatory language, perhaps thought by some to establish an everlasting peace, was common in the words of many of the treaties. The 1778 Treaty with the Delaware Indians and the United States memorialized that notion with a recital stating: “That all offences or acts of hostilities by one, or either of the contracting parties against the other, be mutually forgiven, and buried in the depth of oblivion, never more to be had in remembrance.” History did not, however prove this notion to be true.
Dr. Victoria Patterson visited Radio Curious on January 16, 2017 to discuss treaties and issues of native sovereignty. We began with the condition of the Native people after the colonies separated from England and before the establishment of the United States.
Join us again next week for part two of our visit with Dr. Victoria Patterson on the history treaty negotiations and issues of Native sovereignty. This program recorded on January 16, 2017.
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