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

Other author Harmon, Alexandra, 1945-
Other author Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest.
Format Book
Publication InfoSeattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest : In association with University of Washington Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxiii, 358 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific. --Treaties.
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific. --Government relations.
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific. --Foreign relations.

SeriesThe Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography
Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography. ^A59299
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008029868
ISBN9780295988382 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN029598838X (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780295988399 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0295988398 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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