Enduring legacies : Native American treaties and contemporary controversies

Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950- (Added Author).

Summary: "This collection of essays by experts on Native American history examines historic agreements in light of recent and ongoing controversies. Claims to ancestral land bases are a prime example: the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 provides a context for addressing the Onondaga's claim to most of the Syracuse urban area. Treaties provide the foundation for such events as the modern-day rebirth of the Ponca Nation in Nebraska more than a century after a bureaucratic error resulted in banishment from ancestral land. One chapter explores why the U.S. Army still officially regards the tragic events at Wounded Knee in December 1890 as a "battle," rather than a "massacre." Another chapter reveals how treaties and laws have been used to retain and regain gas and oil resource ownership. Yet another chapter examines why so much energy has been expended over the fate of 9,300-year-old hones that have come to be called "Kennewick Man.""--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0313321043 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780313321047 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xx, 365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Westport, Connecticut : Praeger, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-352) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The "lobster war", the Marshall Decision, and emerging Canadian First Nations' treaty rights / Bruce E. Johansen -- Sovereign municipalities : twenty years after the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 / Granville Ganter -- The Treaty of Canandaigua (1794) : past and present / Robert W. Venables -- The Iroquois land claims : a legacy of fraud, politics, and dispossession / John C. Mohawk -- The New York Oneidas : a business called a nation / Bruce E. Johansen -- The Greenville Treaty of 1795 : pen-and-ink witchcraft in the struggle for the Old Northwest / Barbara Alice Mann -- Rebirth of the Osni (northern) Ponca / Jerry Stubben -- Wounded Knee, 1890 : battle or massacre : a treaty context / Hugh J. Reilly -- How the Osages kept their oil / Teresa Trumbly Lamsam, Bruce E. Johansen -- Kennewick Man : the facts, the fantasies, and the stakes / Bruce E. Johansen -- The new terminators : a guide to the antitreaty movement / Bruce E. Johansen.