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Broken treaties : United States and Canadian relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868-1885 /
Broken Treaties is a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States-Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the "broken treaties" label impo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Broken Treaties is a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States-Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the "broken treaties" label imposed by nineteenth-century observers and perpetuated in the historical literature has obscured the implementation experience of both Native and non-Native participants and distorted our understanding of the relationships between them. As a result, historians have ignored the role of the Treaty of 1868 as the i |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 450 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-430) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780803224452 0803224451 9786612130823 6612130822 |