Enduring Legacies Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies

Subjects:

• Multicultural Studies » Native American Studies
• Law » Legal History

Reviews:

• This work has enough good material to recommend it to academic and public libraries.
  —Library Journal September 1, 2004
• Indian studies scholars will find much to challenge in several of the articles....The book could be useful in a discussion of the whole field of Indian studies, in that its polemics offer sophisticated readers a chance to compare the positions taken here with more generally accepted scholarship. General collections. Recommended. Large Native American holdings.
  —Choice January 2005
• This anthology offers 11 case studies in historical and contemporary treaty-rights issues. the contributors are recognized authorities on their particular subjects; the essays are uniformly well researched and well presented....[t]he anthology succeeds in its avowed purpose of supporting renewed inquiry into the general question on treaty rights and settlements.
  —Multicultural Review Spring 2005
• Enduring Legacies offers insightful and informative perspectives on events once recounted only in the voice of the conqueror. In so doing, in contributes meaningfully to the national conversation and to that vital shared sense of history. The narrative and analysis provided in its chapters are all the more important as tribal states reinitiate participation in the international community and consider the expansion of their own internal frameworks. Enduring Legacies is instructive for U.S. and Canadian decision makers and those involved in the struggle for Native liberation. At the same time, it is a rich source for students of history, offering a comfortable balance between a broad geographic scope and attention to detail, dedicating a full chapter to each of ten controveries, half of which arose in the Great Plains.
  —Great Plains Research 2005
• [A] genuinely thought-provoking collection of essays in which the reader is challenged to address some very important questions....[g]iven the depth of scholarship and the commitment each of the contributors displays in this book, I would aver that Enduring Legacies is a worthwhile place to begin thinking about the answers.
  —American Indian Culture and Research Journal 2004

• Endorsement From John Fadden
  Director
  Six Nations Indian Museum: Approximately four-hundred treaties have been enacted between Native Nations and the United States government. A good share of these honorable agreements have been eroded, or severely bruised, by time, cultural misunderstandings, and the actions or lack thereof of the USA. This insightful book puts a clear light upon some of the issues involved. Each author writes elegantly and with meticulous informative detail. Readers will get a good sense of what it was like during those historic times when the agreements were hammered out.
• Endorsement From Ward Churchill
  author of Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Angloamerican Law: Anyone possessed of a belief in the integrity with which Angloamerica's vaunted 'government[s] of laws' are supposedly imbued, or the notion that they consistently pursue such ideals as freedom and equality, should feel obliged to read the essays collected in this book.
• Endorsement From Duane Champagne,
  Native Nations Law and Policy Center
  University of California, Los Angeles: A must-read for students who are interested in continuing reevaluation of Native history of law and sovereignty....The analyses are often original and thought-provoking. Old ground is reinterpreted and rethought, while new case studies update the reader about significant contemporary issues and events.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Bruce E. Johansen
• The "Lobster War," the Marshall Decision, and Emerging Canadian First Nations' Treaty Rights by Bruce E. Johansen
• Sovereign Municipalities? Twenty Years After the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 Granville Ganter
• The Treaty of Canadaigua (1794): Past and Present by Robert W. Venables
• The Iroquois Land Claims: A Legacy of Fraud, Politics, and Dispossession by John C. Mohawk
• The New York Oneidas: A Business Called a Nation by Bruce E. Johansen
• The Greenville Treaty of 1795: Pen-and-Ink Witchcraft in the Struggles for the Old Northwest by Barbara Alice Mann
• Rebirth of the Osni (Northern) Ponca by Jerry Stubben
• Wounded Knee, 1890: Battle or Massacre? Treaty Context by Hugh J. Reilly
• How the Osages Kept Their Oil by Teresa Trunbly-Lamsam
• Kennewick Man: The Facts, the Fantasies, and the Stakes by Bruce E. Johansen
• The New Terminators: A Guide to the Anti-Treaty Movement by Bruce E. Johansen