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The power of promises : rethinking Indian treaties in the Pacific Northwest

Title
The power of promises : rethinking Indian treaties in the Pacific Northwest / edited by Alexandra Harmon.
ISBN
9780295988382 (hardback : alk. paper)
029598838X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780295988399 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0295988398 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest : In association with University of Washington Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xiii, 358 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 23, 2009
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Pacific Northwest Indian treaties in national and international historical perspective / Alexandra Harmon
Pt. 1. Colonial conceits.
1. Negotiated sovereignty : Indian treaties and the acquisition of American and Canadian territorial rights in the Pacific Northwest / Kent McNeil
2. Unmaking Native space : a geneology of Indian policy, settler practice, and the microtechniques of dispossession / Paige Raibmon
Pt. 2. 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 / Hamar Foster and Alan Grove
4. The Boldt decision in Canada : aboriginal treaty rights to fish on the Pacific / Douglas C. Harris
Pt. 3. Indigenous interpretations and responses.
5. Performing treaties : the culture and politics of treaty remembrance and celebration / Chris Friday
6. Reserved for whom? : defending and defining treaty rights on the Columbia River, 1880-1920 / Andrew H. Fisher
7. Ethnogenesis and ethnonationalism from competing treaty claims / Russel Lawrence Barsh
8. The Sevens treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket 264, and the Ancient One known as Kennewick Man / Bruce Rigsby
. Pt. 4. Power relations in contemporary forums.
"History wars" and treaty rights in Canada : a Canadian case study / Arthur J. Ray
10. History, democracy, and treaty negotiations in British Columbia / Ravi de Costa
11. Treaty substitutes in the modern era / Robert T. Anderson.
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