Overview of American Indian Policy, Treaties, and Reservations in the Northwest
Treaty Council

Isaac I. Stevens council in the Bitterroot Valley,
July 1855. (Drawing by Gustav Sohon. Courtesy of Washington State Historical
Society. Reproduced in, David L. Nicandri, Northwest Chiefs: Gustav Sohon's
View of the 1855 Stevens Treaty Councils. Tacoma, Washington State Historical
Society, 1986.)