The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the

The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

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.
Country USA
Brand University of Washington Press
Manufacturer University of Washington Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 98241
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780295988399
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Washington Press
Manufacturer	University of Washington Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	98241
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780295988399
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)