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Nation to nation : treaties between the United States & American Indian Nations / general editor, Suzan Shown Harjo.

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Washington, DC : Published by the National Museum of the American Indian in association with Smithsonian Books, c2014.

Indians of North America -- Treaties -- History.

Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Indians of North America -- Government relations.

Treaty-making power -- United States -- History.

9781588344786 (hardback) :

1588344789 (hardback)

xiii, 258 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm

Introduction / Suzan Shown Harjo. -- American Indian land and American Empire : an interview with Philip J. Deloria / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Treaties with Native Nations : iconic historical relics or modern necessity? / Robert N. Clinton. -- Treaties as recognition of the nation-to-nation relationship / Matthew L.M. Fletcher -- Linking arms and brightening the chain : building relations through treaties / Richard W. Hill, Sr. -- The two-row wampum belt? / Mark G. Hirsch -- William Penn's treaty and the Shackamaxon elm tree / Arwen Nuttall -- Illegal state treaties / Mark G. Hirsch -- Unintended consequences : "Johnson v. M'Intosh" and Indian removal / Lindsay G. Robertson. -- Removal treaties : an interview with Carey N. Vicenti / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Avoiding removal : the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians / Matthew L.M. Fletcher -- The Great Treaty Council at Horse Creek / Raymond J. DeMaillie. -- Language and world view at the Horse Creek Treaty / Arwen Nuttall -- "The Indians were the spoken word" : an interview with N. Scott Momaday / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Naal Tsoos Saní : the Navajo Treaty of 1868, nation building, and self-determination / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- Treaties my ancestors made for me : a family treaty history / Suzan Shown Harjo -- The betrayal of "civilization" in United States-Native Nations diplomacy : Pawnee treaties and cultural genocide / James Riding In. -- American Indian scouts / Mark G. Hirsch -- "Civilization" and the Hupa flower dance ceremony / Lois J. Risling -- Rights guaranteed by solemn treaties. -- The game and fish were made for us : hunting and fishing rights in Native Nations' treaties / Hank Adams -- The anti-treaty movement in the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes / Suzan Shown Harjo -- River by river : treaty rights in Washington State : an interview with Susan Hvalsoe Komori / Suzan Shown Harjo -- "The fish helped to bring people together" : an interview with Zoltán Grossman / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Arthur Duhamel : treaty fisherman / Matthew L.M. Fletcher -- Rights we always had : an interview with Tina Kuckkahn / Suzan Shown Harjo -- From dislocation to self-determination : Native Nations and the United States in the twentieth-century. -- The treaty with the Lower Klamath, Upper Klamath, and Trinity River Indians-- and who we are today / Lois J. Risling -- Treaties and the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples / Arwen Nuttall -- Modern treaties : an interview with Ben Nighthorse Campbell / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Treaties and contemporary American Indian cultures / W. Richard West, Jr.

"Approximately 368 treaties were negotiated and signed by U.S. commissioners and tribal leaders (and subsequently approved by the U.S. Senate) from 1777 to 1868. These treaties enshrine promises the U.S. government made to Indian people and recognize tribes as nations--a fact that distinguishes tribal citizens from other Americans, and supports contemporary Native assertions of tribal sovereignty and self-determination. Treaties are legally binding and still in effect. Beginning in the 1960s, Native activists invoked America's growing commitment to social justice to restore broken treaties. Today, the reassertion of treaty rights and tribal self-determination is evident in renewed tribal political, economic, and cultural strength, as well as in reinvigorated nation-to-nation relations with the United States"--

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