Summary Let Us Have Peace offers a detailed numismatic, art- and socio-historical discussion of 302 Indian peace medals and related objects that entered the cabinet of the American Numismatic Society between 1883 and 2013. The medals represent an important and often under-utilized resource for the history of relationships between the Native peoples of North America and the colonial powers of France, Great Britain, and Spain, as well as their successors, Canada and the United States of America. Despite being inanimate objects of silver and copper, the Indian peace medals in the ANS collection are incomparable storytellers, each offering its own tale of the past that give us insight into the remarkable lives of the medals? creators, distributors, and recipients. TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction Medals Distributed in French North America (ca. 1610?1760) King Louis XIV King Louis XV Medals Distributed in British North America (ca. 1610?1860) Lord Baltimore Queen Anne King George I King George II King George III Medals Distributed in the Province and Dominion of Canada (ca. 1840?1921) Queen Victoria Treaties 1 and 2 Treaty 3 Treaty 6 Assembly of Indian Tribes Treaty 9 Treaty 11 Medals Distributed in Spanish North America (ca. 1769?1806) King Carlos IV Medals Distributed in the United States of America (ca. 1788?1896) Commonwealth of Virginia Continental Congress George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren William Henry Harrison John Tyler James K. Polk Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Private and Fur Trade Medals distributed in the United States of America (ca. 1822?1900) Miss White?s Seminary for Select Ladies American Fur Company Pierre Chouteau, Jr. & Co. Union Fur Company George Washington Chief Bacon Rind Appendix A: U.S. Mint Miniature Presidential Medals Appendix B: U.S. Mint Presidential Medals Appendix C: Commemorative Indian Peace Medal Facsimiles Appendix D: Indian Peace Medal Facsimiles and Fantasies Bibliography Index