The Power of Promises

Harmon Alexandra

ISBN 10: 0295988398 / ISBN 13: 9780295988399

Published by University of Washington Press, 2008

About this Item

pp. 384, 3 Maps.

Seller Inventory # 8200184

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Power of Promises
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295988398
• ISBN 13: 9780295988399
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.