Faith in paper : the ethnohistory and litigation of upper Great Lakes Indian treaties / Charles E. Cleland ; with Bruce R. Greene [and others].
During the last quarter of the twentieth century, the native people of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota made numerous complaints that their long-standing treaty agreements with the United States were being totally ignored by their state and local governments. Faith in Paper explores the epic clash...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2011], ©2011.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 391 pages) : maps |
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Contents:
- The treaty
- The foundations of treaty making
- The invention of Euro-American and Indian treaty making
- Treaties and American law
- The treaties of 1836 and 1855
- United States v. Michigan / by Bruce R. Greene
- United States v. Michigan / by Marc Slonim
- The treaties of St. Peters (1837) and La Pointe
- Lac Courte Oreilles band v. Wisconsin / by Kathryn L. Tierney
- Milles Lacs band of Chippewa Indians et al. v. State of Minnesota et al. / by Marc Slonim
- The Menominee and the coming of Europeans
- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. Thompson / by Bruce R. Greene
- The boundary of the Keweenaw Bay Reservation
- Keweenaw Bay Indian Community v. Michigan / by Bruce R. Greene
- Factionalism and removal: the Stockbridge and Munsee, 1830-56
- State of Wisconsin v. Stockbridge-Munsee Community and Robert Chicks / by Brian Pierson
- The ethnohistory of the Mille Lacs Reservation boundary
- County of Mille Lacs v. Melanie Benjamin et al. / by Marc Slonim
- The treaties of Detroit, August 2, 1855, and Saginaw, October 18, 1864
- Allotment and land loss on the Keweenaw Bay reservation
- Keweenaw Bay Indian Community v. Naftaly / by Skip Durocher
- The benefits of reestablished treaties.