The power of promises : rethinking Indian treaties in the Pacific Northwest

Harmon, Alexandra, 1945- (Added Author). Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. (Added Author).

Summary: "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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780295988382
ISBN: 029598838X
ISBN: 9780295988399
ISBN: 0295988398
Physical Description: print
xiii, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, ©2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes indexes.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Pacific Northwest Indian treaties in national and international historical perspective / Alexandra Harmon -- pt. 1. Colonial conceits. -- 1. Negotiated sovereignty : Indian treaties and the acquisition of American and Canadian territorial rights in the Pacific Northwest / Kent McNeil -- 2. Unmaking Native space : a geneology of Indian policy, settler practice, and the microtechniques of dispossession / Paige Raibmon -- pt. 2. 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 / Hamar Foster and Alan Grove -- 4. Boldt decision in Canada : aboriginal treaty rights to fish on the Pacific / Douglas C. Harris -- pt. 3. Indigenous interpretations and responses. -- 5. Performing treaties : the culture and politics of treaty remembrance and celebration / Chris Friday -- 6. Reserved for whom? : defending and defining treaty rights on the Columbia River, 1880-1920 / Andrew H. Fisher -- 7. Ethnogenesis and ethnonationalism from competing treaty claims / Russel Lawrence Barsh -- 8. Sevens treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket 264, and the Ancient One known as Kennewick Man / Bruce Rigsby -- . pt. 4. Power relations in contemporary forums. -- "History wars" and treaty rights in Canada : a Canadian case study / Arthur J. Ray -- 10. History, democracy, and treaty negotiations in British Columbia / Ravi de Costa -- 11. Treaty substitutes in the modern era / Robert T. Anderson.