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.
Alexandra Harmon is associate professor of American Indian
studies at the University of Washington and author of "Indians in
the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget
Sound." Other contributors are Robert Anderson, Russel Lawrence
Barsh, Ravi de Costa, Andrew H. Fisher, Hamar Foster, Chris Friday,
Alan Grove, Douglas C. Harris, Kent McNeil, Paige Raigmon, Arthur
Ray, and Bruce Rigsby.
"This is a timely and important volume of essays all linked to
the idea of treaties. It takes the unusual step of including
historians, legal historians, and anthropologists from both sides
of the Canada - U.S. border, bringing new insights and approaches
to scholars in both directions. Treaties, usually studied as texts
in isolation, benefit from being gathered as a corpus and
considered alongside the oral treaties that accompanied the written
words." - John Sutton Lutz, University of Victoria
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