TY - BOOK AU - Foreman,Grant TI - Advancing the frontier, 1830-1860 T2 - The civilization of the American Indian [4] AV - E93 .F64 PY - 1933/// CY - Norman PB - The University of Oklahoma press KW - Indians of North America KW - Government relations KW - 1789-1869 KW - West (U.S.) KW - Indian Territory KW - Councils KW - Wars KW - 1815-1875 KW - Military bases KW - United States N1 - 1 copy in stacks; 1 copy in Archives; Bibliography: p. [331]-337; Immigrant Indians and their problems -- The beginning of Fort Gibson -- Sketches of a frontier garrison -- Fort Wayne and Fort Towson -- Fort Washita protects the Chickasaw immigrants -- Indian hostilities -- The Osage Indians -- Peace council at Fort Gibson -- Missionary activities -- Hostile Prairie Indians -- Choctaw immigrants in involved in Mexican disorders -- Peace negotiations with Texas Indians -- Attempt to form an Indian confederacy -- Cherokee Council of 1838 -- Indian International Councils of 1842 and 1843 -- Creek negotiation with native Indians -- Chickasaw harried by Prairie Indians -- Comanche Indians menace Fort Arbuckle -- Indian customs -- John Howard Payne describes the Cherokee Indians ER -