Faith in paper : the ethnohistory and litigation of upper Great Lakes Indian treaties / Charles E. Cleland ; with Bruce R. Greene, Marc Slonim, Nancy N. Cleland, Kathryn L. Tierney, Skip Durocher, and Brian Pierson.

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"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 clas...

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Main Authors: Cleland, Charles E., 1936- (Author)
Greene, Bruce R. (Author)
Slonim, Marc (Author)
Cleland, Nancy N. (Author)
Tierney, Kathryn L. (Author)
Durocher, Skip (Author)
Pierson, Brian (Author)
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Edition:First paperback edition.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Great Lakes Region (North America) > Treaties > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Land tenure > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History.
Indians of North America > Land tenure.
Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians of North America > Treaties.
Great Lakes Region.
History.
Genre:
History.
Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:x, 391 pages : maps ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part 1. Exploring the origins of indian treaties
  • Introductory notes
  • The treaty
  • The foundations of treaty making
  • The invention of Euro-American and Indian treaty making
  • Treaties and American law
  • Part 2. Usufructuary litigation
  • 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
  • Part 3. Reservation issues
  • 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
  • Part 4. Conclusions
  • The benefits of reestablished treaties.