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Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868-1885
Jill St. Germain
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Description for Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868-1885
Hardback. 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). It restores Indian treaties to a central position in the investigation of Native-non-Native relations in the United States and Canada. Num Pages: 484 pages, 1 photogrpaph, maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; JFSL9; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 862.
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 instrument through which the United States and the Lakotas mediated the cultural ... Read more
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 instrument through which the United States and the Lakotas mediated the cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
Number of Pages
484
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803215894
SKU
V9780803215894
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About Jill St. Germain
Jill St. Germain is an independent scholar and writer in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867–1877 (Nebraska 2004).
Reviews for Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868-1885
"In challenging the long-honored "broken treaties tradition," Jill St. Germain has written a groundbreaking and welcome revision of the history of treaty- and reservation-making on both sides of the United States-Canadian border. . . . Broken Treaties is a must read for any scholar interested in the history of the Great Plains, federal policy, the western United States, western Canada, ... Read more