
Land cession treaties with Native American nations transformed human relationships to the natural world and became a profitable business. U.S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. In this book published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, author Martin Case provides a comprehensive study of the treaty signers, exposing their business ties and multigenerational interrelationships through birth and marriage and how they used the treaty process to enrich themselves and their associates.