The power of promises : rethinking Indian treaties in the Pacific Northwest / edited by Alexandra Harmon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harmon, Alexandra, Author.

Contributor:

Harmon, Alexandra, 1945-

Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest.

Series:

Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.

The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Treaties.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Government relations.

Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest have had profound and long-lasting implications for land ownership, resource access, and political rights in both the United States and Canada. In The Power of Promises, a distinguished group of scholars, representing many disciplines, discuss the treaties' legacies. In North America, where treaties have been employed hundreds of times to define relations between indigenous and colonial societies, many such pacts have continuing legal force, and many have been the focus of recent, high-stakes legal contests. The Power of Promises shows that Indian treaties have implications for important aspects of human history and contemporary existence, including struggles for political and cultural power, law's effect on people's self-conceptions, the functions of stories about the past, and the process of defining national and ethnic identities.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword by John Borrows""; ""Introduction: Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and International Historical Perspective""; ""Part I - Colonial Conceits""; ""1. Negotiated Sovereignty: Indian Treaties and the Acquisition of American and Canadian Territorial Rights in the Pacific Northwest""; ""2. Unmaking Native Space: A Genealogy of Indian Policy, Settler Practice, and the Microtechniques of Dispossession""; ""Part II - Cross-Border Influences""

""3. "Trespassers on the Soil": United States v. Tom and a New Perspective on the Short History of Treaty Making in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia""""4. The Boldt Decision in Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights to Fish on the Pacific""; ""Part III - Indigenous interpretations and Responses""; ""5. Performing Treaties: The Culture and Politics of Treaty Remembrance and Celebration""; ""6. Reserved for Whom? : Defending and Defining Treaty Rights on the Columbia River, 1880- 1920""; ""7. Ethnogenesis and Ethnonationalism from Competing Treaty Claims""

""8. The Stevens Treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket and the Ancient One known as Kennewick Man""""Part IV - Power Relations In Contemporary Forms""; ""9. "History Wars" and Treaty Rights in Canada: A Canadian Case Study""; ""10. History, Democracy, and Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia""; ""11. Treaty Substitutes in the Modern Era""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes indexes.

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ISBN:

0-295-80046-1

OCLC:

774404039