Description
Book SynopsisDiscusses the legacies of the treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest and their relevance as they define our relationship to one another and to the land and its resources.
Trade Review"The Power of Promises provides the reader with a complex and international understanding of treaties in the Pacific Northwest. . . . Any scholar or student of Native American history would benefit from reading and wrestling with the ideas and interpretations in this volume."
-- Robert McCoy * Journal of American Ethnic History *
"This volume will appeal to people interested in legal studies and Native American history and will challenge readers to rethink what they know about the region's history."
-- Patricia Ann Owens * Columbia *
"The Power of Promises presents the Pacific Northwest as a microcosm bringing the multiple complications of indigenous and international treaties into sharp focus. . . . [T]his collection of essays offers several surprises that make this an important touchstone for consideration of indigenous legal relationships around the Pacific Rim and beyond."
* Journal of World History *
"This multidisciplinary, transnational volume is a welcome addition to treaty literature in Canada and the United States…. Together these essays provide a comprehensive, thought-provoking overview of treaties in the Pacific Northwest along with fresh perspectives on their significance for indigenous-settler relations today."
* BC Studies *
"The Power of Promises contextualizes and breathes new understandings into the processes, perspectives, intentionalities and implications of treaty making between the Aboriginal inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest and European settlers as they negotiated their respective spaces."
* BC History *
"While the essays do a marvelous job defining power relations between tribal groups and western governments, the work is also exemplary in exploring power relations among tribes. This text should serve as a model for those who would produce books deriving from conference papers. It provides valuable comparative insights, for beginners and experts, into treaty and resource issues and histories across national, tribal (and disciplinary) borders in the Pacific Northwest."
* Oregon Historical Quarterly *
"Alexandra Harmon has pulled 11 important essays together into a useful volume to be used in Native studies, political science, and American and Canadian First Nations history. This is an important book for treaty history, policy history, and transborder studies."
* Pacific Northwest Quarterly *
Table of ContentsForeword / 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
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