“I want the world to hear my side of this trouble,” Kintpuash said to a visitor while awaiting hanging. From Kintpuash’s perspective, international law was little more than a euphemism for the destruction of his people. And there were two critical facts left out of the American story and the attorney general’s reasoning. First, the United States wasn’t true to its word when it purported to make peace agreements with native peoples—legal treaties were deceptive to begin with (as Kintpuash felt of one he signed), or disregarded as soon as expansion and settlement demanded it. Second, both before
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