ISBN

9781588344786; 1588344789

Statement of Responsibility

general editor, Suzan Shown Harjo.

Edition

First Edition.

Publication Information

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

Physical Description

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

Contents

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.