For half a century, during which the Indian problem reached and passed its most difficult places, the United States was negligent in publishing compilations of Indian laws and treaties. In 1837 the Commissioner of Indian Affairs published in Washington, _Treaties between the United States of America and the Several Indian Tribes, from 1778 to 1837: with a copious Table of Contents_. After this date, documents and correspondence were to be found only in the intricate sessional papers and the _Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs_, which accompanied the reports of the Secretary of War, 1832-1849, and those of the Secretary of the Interior after 1849. In 1902 Congress published C. J. Kappler, _Indian Affairs, Laws, and Treaties_ (57th Cong., 1st sess., Sen. Doc. 452). Few historians have made serious use of these compilations or reports. Two other government documents of great value in the history of Indian negotiations are, Thomas Donaldson, _The Public Domain_ (47th Cong., 2d sess., H. Misc. Doc. 45, Pt. 4), and C. C. Royce, _Indian Land Cessions in the United States_ (with many charts, in 18th _Ann. Rep. of the Bureau of Am. Ethnology_, Pt. 2, 1896-1897). Most special works on the Indians are partisan, spectacular, or ill informed; occasionally they have all these qualities. A few of the most accessible are: A. H. Abel, _History of the Events resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi_ (in _Ann. Rep. of the Am. Hist. Assn._, 1906, an elaborate and scholarly work); J. P. Dunn, _Massacres of the Mountains, a History of the Indian Wars of the Far West_ (N.Y., 1886; a relatively critical work, with some bibliography); R. I. Dodge, _Our Wild Indians ..._ (Hartford, 1883); G. E. Edwards, _The Red Man and the White Man in North America from its Discovery to the Present Time_ (Boston, 1882; a series of Lowell Institute lectures, by no means so valuable as the pretentious title would indicate); I. V. D. Heard, _History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863_ (N.Y., 1863; a contemporary and useful narrative); O. O. Howard, _Nez Perce Joseph, an Account of his Ancestors, his Lands, his Confederates, his Enemies, his Murders, his War, his Pursuit and Capture_ (Boston, 1881; this is General Howard's personal vindication); Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, _A Century of Dishonor, a Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes_ (N.Y., 1881; highly colored and partisan); G. W. Manypenny, _Our Indian Wards_ (Cincinnati, 1880; by a former Indian Commissioner); L. E. Textor, _Official Relations between the United States and the Sioux Indians_ (Palo Alto, 1896; one of the few scholarly and dispassionate works on the Indians); F. A. Walker, _The Indian Question_ (Boston, 1874; three essays by a former Indian Commissioner); C. T. Brady, _Indian Fights and Fighters_ and _Northwestern Fights and Fighters_ (N.Y., 1907; two volumes in his