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"Nation to Nation explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold on to traditional homelands and ways of life. The book reveals how the ideas of honor, fair dealings, good faith, rule of law, and peaceful relations between nations have been tested and challenged in historical and modern times. The book consistently demonstrates how and why centuries-old treaties remain living, relevant documents for both Natives and non-Natives in the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher.

"Approximately 368 treaties were negotiated and signed by U.S. commissioners and tribal leaders (and subsequently approved by the U.S. Senate) from 1777 to 1868. These treaties enshrine promises the U.S. government made to Indian people and recognize tribes as nations--a fact that distinguishes tribal citizens from other Americans, and supports contemporary Native assertions of tribal sovereignty and self-determination. Treaties are legally binding and still in effect. Beginning in the 1960s, Native activists invoked America's growing commitment to social justice to restore broken treaties. Today, the reassertion of treaty rights and tribal self-determination is evident in renewed tribal political, economic, and cultural strength, as well as in reinvigorated nation-to-nation relations with the United States"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction / Suzan Shown Harjo

American Indian land and American Empire : an interview with Philip J. Deloria / Suzan Shown Harjo

Treaties with Native Nations : iconic historical relics or modern necessity? / Robert N. Clinton

Treaties as recognition of the nation-to-nation relationship / Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Linking arms and brightening the chain : building relations through treaties / Richard W. Hill, Sr.

The two-row wampum belt? / Mark G. Hirsch

William Penn's treaty and the Shackamaxon elm tree / Arwen Nuttall

Illegal state treaties / Mark G. Hirsch

Unintended consequences : "Johnson v. M'Intosh" and Indian removal / Lindsay G. Robertson

Removal treaties : an interview with Carey N. Vicenti / Suzan Shown Harjo

Avoiding removal : the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians / Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The Great Treaty Council at Horse Creek / Raymond J. DeMaillie

Language and world view at the Horse Creek Treaty / Arwen Nuttall

"The Indians were the spoken word" : an interview with N. Scott Momaday / Suzan Shown Harjo

Naal Tsoos Saní : the Navajo Treaty of 1868, nation building, and self-determination / Jennifer Nez Denetdale

Treaties my ancestors made for me : a family treaty history / Suzan Shown Harjo

The betrayal of "civilization" in United States-Native Nations diplomacy : Pawnee treaties and cultural genocide / James Riding In

American Indian scouts / Mark G. Hirsch

"Civilization" and the Hupa flower dance ceremony / Lois J. Risling

Rights guaranteed by solemn treaties

The game and fish were made for us : hunting and fishing rights in Native Nations' treaties / Hank Adams

The anti-treaty movement in the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes / Suzan Shown Harjo

River by river : treaty rights in Washington State : an interview with Susan Hvalsoe Komori / Suzan Shown Harjo

"The fish helped to bring people together" : an interview with Zoltán Grossman / Suzan Shown Harjo

Arthur Duhamel : treaty fisherman / Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Rights we always had : an interview with Tina Kuckkahn / Suzan Shown Harjo

From dislocation to self-determination : Native Nations and the United States in the twentieth-century / Kevin Gover

The treaty with the Lower Klamath, Upper Klamath, and Trinity River Indians : and who we are today / Lois J. Risling

Treaties and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Arwen Nuttall

Modern treaties : an interview with Ben Nighthorse Campbell / Suzan Shown Harjo

Treaties and contemporary American Indian cultures / W. Richard West, Jr.

Indians of North America > Treaties > History.

Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc.

Indians of North America > Government relations.

Treaty-making power > United States > History.

United States > Foreign relations > Treaties > History.