Alexandra Harmon

The Power of Promises

Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest

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Produktbeschreibung

Treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest have had profound and long-lasting implications for land ownership, resource access, and political rights in both the United States and Canada. In The Power of Promises, a distinguished group of scholars, representing many disciplines, discuss the treaties' legacies. In North America, where treaties have been employed hundreds of times to define relations between indigenous and colonial societies, many such pacts have continuing legal force, and many have been the focus of recent, high-stakes legal contests. The Power of Promises shows that Indian treaties have implications for important aspects of human history and contemporary existence, including struggles for political and cultural power, law's effect on people's self-conceptions, the functions of stories about the past, and the process of defining national and ethnic identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780295988399
• ISBN-10: 0295988398
• Artikelnr.: 23819449

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Harmon is professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington and author of several books including The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest (UWP, 2008), and Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History (UNC Press, 2013), among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / John Borrows
Introduction: Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and
International Historical Perspective / Alexandra Harmon
I. Colonial Conceits
Negotiated Sovereignty: Indian Treaties and the Acquisition of American and
Canadian Territorial Rights in the Pacific Northwest / Kent McNeil
Unmaking Native Space: A Genealogy of Indian Policy, Settler Practice, and
the Microtechniques of Dispossession / Paige Raibmon
II. Cross-Border Influences
"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
The Boldt Decision in Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights to Fish on the
Pacific / Douglas C. Harris
III. Indigenous Interpretations and Responses
Performing Treaties: The Culture and Politics of Treaty Remembrance and
Celebration / Chris Friday
Reserved for Whom? Defending and Defining Treaty Rights on the Columbia
River, 1880-1920 / Andrew H. Fisher
Ethnogenesis and Ethnonationalism from Competing Treaty Claims / Russel
Lawrence Barsh
The Stevens Treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket 264, and the Ancient
One known as Kennewick Man / Bruce Rigsby
IV. Power Relations in Contemporary Forums
"History Wars" and Treaty Rights in Canada: A Canadian Case Study / Arthur
J. Ray
History, Democracy, and Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia / Ravi de
Costa
Treaty Substitutes in the Modern Era / Robert T. Anderson
Contributors
Index