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The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest

By Alexandra Harmon , John Borrows

Book information

Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2009
ISBN
029598838X, 9780295988382
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1717035 bytes)
Series
Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
Pages
384\374
Time added
2017-05-06 01:09:04
Native American;Americas;History;Land Use;Administ

Description

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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