Treaties That Erased a Continent. Indigenous sovereignty and the legal erasure of native lands

When a treaty is signed and then forgotten, what remains of the promise? Between 1778 and 1871, the United States entered into nearly 400 treaties with Indigenous nations-then systematically dismantled each one through legislation, executive order, and judicial interpretation. This book examines the legal architecture of dispossession: how the Doctrine of Discovery became American property law, how the Trade and Intercourse Acts restricted native sovereignty, and how the Supreme Court's Marshall Trilogy defined tribes as "domestic dependent nations, " stripping them of international standing.