The American Indian Under Reconstruction is a historical book which primarily deals with the establishment of a new relationship with the United States government and the great southern tribes. The book examines in great detail, the enormous price that the unfortunate Native Americans had to pay for having allowed themselves to become a secessionists and a soldiers.

Overtures of Peace and Reconciliation

The Return of the Refugees

Cattle-driving in the Indian Country

The Muster Out of the Indian Home Guards

The Surrender of the Secessionist Indians

The Peace Council at Fort Smith, September, 1865

The Harlan Bill

The Freedmen of Indian Territory

The Earlier of the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866

Negotiations With the Cherokees