Synopses & Reviews
SUZAN SHOWN HARJO (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee) is an advocate for American Indian rights as well as a poet, writer, lecturer, and curator. She is president of the Morning Star Institute, an American Indian rights advocacy group in Washington, DC.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Kevin Gover
Introduction by Suzan Shown Harjo
American Indian Land and American Empire: An Interview with Philip J. Deloria by Suzan Shown Harjo
Treaties with Native Nations: Iconic Historical Relics or Modern Necessity? by Robert N. Clinton
Treaties as Recognition of the Nation-to-Nation Relationship by Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Linking Arms and Brightening the Chain: Building Relations Through Treaties by Richard W. Hill Sr.
The Two-Row Wampum Belt by Mark G. Hirsch
William Penn's Treaty and the Shackamaxon Elm Tree by Arwen Nuttall
Illegal State Treaties by Mark G. Hirsch
Unintended Consequences: Johnson v. M'Intosh and Indian Removal by Lindsay G. Robertson
Removal Treaties: An Interview with Carey N. Vicenti by Suzan Shown Harjo
Avoiding Removal: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
The Great Treaty Council at Horse Creek by Raymond J. Demallie
Language and World View at the Horse Creek Treaty by Arwen Nuttall
"The Indians Were the Spoken Word": An Interview with N. Scott Momaday by Suzan Shown Harjo
Naal Tsoos Sani: The Navajo Treaty of 1868, Nation Building, and Self-Determination by Jennifer Nez Denetdale
Treaties My Ancestors Made for Me: A Family Treaty History by Suzan Shown Harjo
The Betrayal of "Civilization" in United States-Native Nations Diplomacy: Pawnee Treaties and Cultural Genocide by James Riding In
American Indian Scouts by Mark G. Hirsch
"Civilization" and the Hupa Flower Dance Ceremony by Lois J. Risling
Rights Guaranteed by Solemn Treaties
The Game and Fish Were Made For Us: Hunting and Fishing Rights in Native Nations' Treaties by Hank Adams
The Anti-Treaty Movement in the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes by Suzan Shown Harjo
River by River: Treaty Rights in Washington State / An Interview with Susan Hvalsoe Komort by Suzan Shown Harjo
"The Fish Helped to Bring People Together": An Interview with Zoltan Grossman by Suzan Shown Harjo
Arthur Duhamel: Treaty Fisherman by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Rights We Always Had: An Interview with Tina Kuckkahn by Suzan Shown Harjo
From Dislocation to Self-Determination: Native Nations and the United States in the Twentieth Century by Kevin Gover
The Treaty with the Lower Klamath, Upper Klamath, and Trinity River Indians--and Who We Are Today by Lois J. Risling
Treaties and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Arwen Nuttall
Modern Treaties: An Interview with Ben Nighthorse Campbell by Suzan Shown Harjo
Treaties and Contemporary American Indian Cultures by W. Richard West Jr.
Notes
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Selected bibliography
Image credits
Index