The Power of Promises : Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by John Borrows -- Introduction: Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and International Historical Perspective -- Part I - Colonial Conceits -- 1. Negotiated Sovereignty: Indian Treaties and the Acquisition of American and Canadian Territorial Rights in the Pacific Northwest -- 2. Unmaking Native Space: A Genealogy of Indian Policy, Settler Practice, and the Microtechniques of Dispossession -- Part II - 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 -- 4. The Boldt Decision in Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights to Fish on the Pacific -- Part III - Indigenous Iinterpretations and Responses -- 5. Performing Treaties: The Culture and Politics of Treaty Remembrance and Celebration -- 6. Reserved for Whom? : Defending and Defining Treaty Rights on the Columbia River, 1880- 1920 -- 7. Ethnogenesis and Ethnonationalism from Competing Treaty Claims -- 8. The Stevens Treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket and the Ancient One known as Kennewick Man -- Part IV - Power Relations In Contemporary Forms -- 9. "History Wars" and Treaty Rights in Canada: A Canadian Case Study -- 10. History, Democracy, and Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia -- 11. Treaty Substitutes in the Modern Era -- Contributors -- Index.

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