Research Catalog

Title

• The power of promises : rethinking Indian treaties in the Pacific Northwest / edited by Alexandra Harmon.

Publication

Seattle, WA : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest : In association with University of Washington Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
• Harmon, Alexandra, 1945-

Description

xiii, 358 p. : maps; 23 cm.

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.
• 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.'--pub. desc.

Series Statement

• Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography

Uniform Title

• Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Geschichte
• Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Foreign relations
• Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Government relations
• Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Treaties
• Kanada Government
• USA Government

Genre/Form

Treaties

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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. The 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. The 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.

ISBN

• 9780295988382 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 029598838X (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9780295988399 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0295988398 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008029868

OCLC

225872652

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library