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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778826203321

Titolo

The power of promises [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking Indian treaties in the Pacific Northwest / / edited by Alexandra Harmon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-295-80046-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

HarmonAlexandra <1945->

Disciplina

323.11970795

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Northwest, Pacific

Indians of North America - Northwest, Pacific - Government relations

Indians of North America - Northwest, Pacific - Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""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""