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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777918703321

Autore

St. Germain Jill <1962->

Titolo

Broken treaties [[electronic resource] ] : United States and Canadian relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868-1885 / / Jill St. Germain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-13082-X

9786612130823

0-8032-2445-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (485 p.)

Disciplina

323.1197

Soggetti

Teton Indians - Government relations

Teton Indians - History - 19th century

Teton Indians

Cree Indians - Government relations

Cree Indians - History - 19th century

Cree Indians

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Separate Pasts; 2. Expectations and Promises; 3. Early Efforts in the United States, 1868-1871; 4. Early Efforts in Canada, 1876-1878; 5. Negotiating the Relationship: the treaty of 1868, 1871-1875; 6. Misunderstanding in Practice: Treaty Six, 1879-1884; 7. The Treaty of 1868 and the Peace Policy, 1875-1876; 8. Treaty Six and the Northwest Rebellion, 1885; Conclusion; Appendix A: 1868 Treaty with the Sioux; Appendix B: 1876 Treaties at Forts Carltonand Pitt, Number Six

List of AbbreviationsNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Broken Treaties is a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States-Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the



"broken treaties" label imposed by nineteenth-century observers and perpetuated in the historical literature has obscured the implementation experience of both Native and non-Native participants and distorted our understanding of the relationships between them. As a result, historians have ignored the role of the Treaty of 1868 as the i