So Long as Grass Shall Grow and Water Run: The Treaties Formed By the Confederate States of America and the Tribes in Indian Territory, 1861

Authors

Charles D. Bernholz, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Laura K. Weakly, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Brian Pytlik Zillig, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Karin Dalziel, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

9-21-2010

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Published online September 21, 2010, by University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Copyright 2010 Charles D. Bernholz, Laura K. Weakly, Brian L. Pytlik Zillig, and Karin Dalziel.

Abstract

The Confederate States of America created nine treaties with the tribes in Indian Territory in July, August, and October of 1861. The original documents no longer exist and the generally accepted source for these transactions today is The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America. These little known instruments reveal a series of provisions that reached far beyond those offered by the federal government in earlier treaties or in the stipulations found in an array of new punitive treaties enacted by the United States following the Civil War.