{"product_id":"the-power-of-promises-9780295988399","title":"The Power of Promises","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscusses 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Power of Promises\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Robert McCoy * Journal of American Ethnic History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Patricia Ann Owens * Columbia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Power of Promises\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of World History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * BC Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Power of Promises\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * BC History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Oregon Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \/ John Borrows\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and International Historical Perspective \/ Alexandra Harmon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. Colonial Conceits\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNegotiated Sovereignty: Indian Treaties and the Acquisition of American and Canadian Territorial Rights in the Pacific Northwest \/ Kent McNeil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnmaking Native Space: A Genealogy of Indian Policy, Settler Practice, and the Microtechniques of Dispossession \/ Paige Raibmon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. Cross-Border Influences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Boldt Decision in Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights to Fish on the Pacific \/ Douglas C. Harris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII. Indigenous Interpretations and Responses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerforming Treaties: The Culture and Politics of Treaty Remembrance and Celebration \/ Chris Friday\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReserved for Whom? Defending and Defining Treaty Rights on the Columbia River, 1880-1920 \/ Andrew H. Fisher\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ethnogenesis and Ethnonationalism from Competing Treaty Claims \/ Russel Lawrence Barsh\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Stevens Treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket 264, and the Ancient One known as Kennewick Man \/ Bruce Rigsby\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIV. Power Relations in Contemporary Forums \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"History Wars\" and Treaty Rights in Canada: A Canadian Case Study \/ Arthur J. Ray\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory, Democracy, and Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia \/ Ravi de Costa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTreaty Substitutes in the Modern Era \/ Robert T. Anderson \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400917000535,"sku":"9780295988399","price":33.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295988399.jpg?v=1730471940","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-power-of-promises-9780295988399","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}