This Collection Of Essays By Experts On Native American History Examines Historic Agreements In Light Of Recent And Ongoing Controversies. Claims To Ancestral Land Bases Are A Prime Example: The Canandaigua Treaty Of 1794 Provides A Context For Addressing The Onondaga's Claim To Most Of The Syracuse Urban Area. Treaties Provide The Foundation For Such Events As The Modern-day Rebirth Of The Ponca Nation In Nebraska More Than A Century After A Bureaucratic Error Resulted In Banishment From Ancestral Land. One Chapter Explores Why The U.s. Army Still Officially Regards The Tragic Events At Wounded Knee In December 1890 As A Battle, Rather Than A Massacre. Another Chapter Reveals How Treaties And Laws Have Been Used To Retain And Regain Gas And Oil Resource Ownership. Yet Another Chapter Examines Why So Much Energy Has Been Expended Over The Fate Of 9,300-year-old Hones That Have Come To Be Called Kennewick Man.--jacket. The Lobster War, The Marshall Decision, And Emerging Canadian First Nations' Treaty Rights / Bruce E. Johansen -- Sovereign Municipalities : Twenty Years After The Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act Of 1980 / Granville Carter -- The Treaty Of Canandaigua (1794) : Past And Present / Robert W. Venables -- The Iroquois Land Claims : A Legacy Of Fraud, Politics, And Dispossession / Johh C. Mohawk -- The New York Oneidas : A Business Called A Nation / Bruce E. Johansen -- The Greenville Treaty Of 1795 : Pen-and-ink Witchcraft In The Struggle For The Old Northwest / Barbara Alice Mann -- Rebirth Of The Osni (northern) Ponca / Jerry Stubben -- Wounded Knee, 1890 : Battle Or Massacre, A Treaty Context / Hugh J. Reilly -- How The Osages Kept Their Oil / Teresa Trumbly Lamsam And Bruce E. Johansen -- Kennewick Man : The Facts, The Fantasies, And The Stakes / Bruce E. Johansen -- The New Terminators : A Guide To The Antitreaty Movement / Bruce E. Johansen. Edited By Bruce E. Johansen ; Foreword By Vine Deloria, Jr. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950-

Bruce Elliott Johansen

Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated

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Westport, Conn.: Praeger

Praeger Publishers

ABC-CLIO, LLC

United States, United States of America

Illustrated, US, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-352) and index.

Treaties are so fundamental to the lives of Native Americans and their nations in the United States and Canada that life without them would be difficult to imagine. Most contemporary issues, from land claims to resource ownership to gambling permits, are rooted in laws that derive much of their sustenance from such documents. Treaties are, therefore, vibrant documents that define important issues in our time. This book is an attempt to maintain a national conversation on the treaty basis of important contemporary laws and issues. While the texts of such treaties have long been available, discussion and other annotation in a context that gives them contemporary meaning has been scarce.
This collection of essays by experts in Native American history examines these historic agreements in light of recent and ongoing controversies. Claims to ancestral land bases are one prime the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 provides a context in which to address the Onondaga's claim to most of the Syracuse urban area. Treaties provide the bases for events such as the modern-day rebirth of the Ponca Nation in Nebraska more than a century after a bureaucratic error resulted in banishment from ancestral land. One chapter explores why the U.S. Army still officially regards tragic events at Wounded Knee in December 1890 as a battle, rather than a massacre. Another reveals how treaties and laws have been used to retain and regain gas and oil resource ownership. Still another expert examines why so much energy has been expended over the fate of 9,300- year-old bones that have come to be called Kennewick Man.

A Canadian Supreme Court ruling supporting aboriginal subsistence rights has electrified debate over Native American economic potential and sparked non-Indian backlash.

xx, 365 p. : 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-352) and index

2024-07-01