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Autore |
Germain Jill St |
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Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877 / / Jill St. Germain |
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Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2001 |
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©2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource: : illustrations, maps) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Treaty-making power |
Treaties. |
History |
Electronic books. |
Indianer |
USA |
Kanada |
United States |
Canada |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Treaty-Making Precedents and Progress -- Treaty-Making Problems -- The Context of Treaty Making -- The Making of the Medicine Lodge, Fort Laramie, and Numbered Treaties -- The Role of "Others" in Treaty Making -- Reserves -- Civilization -- Buffalo Preservation, Hunting Rights, and Subsistence -- Ratification, Indian Status, and Treaty Making -- "Humane, Just, and Christian." |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877 is a comparison of United States and Canadian Indian policies with emphasis on the reasons these governments embarked on treaty-making ventures in the 1860s and 1870s, how they conducted those negotiations, and their results. Jill St. Germain challenges assertions made by the Canadian government in 1877 of the superiority and distinctiveness of Canada's Indian policy compared to that of the United |
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