ABSTRACT
This chapter describes to a major theme of the War of 1812, the young republics policies toward its indigenous inhabitants. The studies found are topically divided into regional sections of the United States in order to show the broad geographical extant of the conflict. As a forgotten war, the War of 1812 still extended its conflict into two countries and practically every region of the young US Accordingly, it have the Western Frontier, the South, the Chesapeake, and the Great Lakes areas prominently featured herein. After this regional topical arrangement comes the detailed analyses which bring life and substance to this collection. Timothy J. Abel examines the camp at Plattsburg, New York in terms of its material evidence and in a similar fashion Susan E. Maguire looks at Old Fort Niagara, another Great Lakes site, through the same lens of material culture.
