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

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Foreword / 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 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 ContributorsIndex