Faith in paper [electronic resource] : the ethnohistory and litigation of upper Great Lakes Indian treaties / Charles E. Cleland ; with Bruce R. Greene ... [and others].

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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 clash...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cleland, Charles E., 1936-
Other Authors: Greene, Bruce R.
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Great Lakes Region (North America) > Treaties > History.
Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History.
Indians of North America > Land tenure > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History.
Online Access:
University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection Archive: 2011 (Digital Object Identifier Permalink)
EBSCO eBooks: 2011 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Faith in Paper: The Ethnohistory and Litigation of Upper Great Lakes Indian Treaties
Format: Electronic eBook
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 volume Michigan / by Bruce R. Greene
  • United States volume Michigan / by Marc Slonim
  • The treaties of St. Peters (1837) and La Pointe
  • Lac Courte Oreilles band volume Wisconsin / by Kathryn L. Tierney
  • Milles Lacs band of Chippewa Indians and others volume State of Minnesota and others / by Marc Slonim
  • The Menominee and the coming of Europeans
  • Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin volume Thompson / by Bruce R. Greene
  • Part 3. Reservation issues
  • The boundary of the Keweenaw Bay Reservation
  • Keweenaw Bay Indian Community volume Michigan / by Bruce R. Greene
  • Factionalism and removal : the Stockbridge and Munsee, 1830-56
  • State of Wisconsin volume Stockbridge-Munsee Community and Robert Chicks / by Brian Pierson
  • The ethnohistory of the Mille Lacs Reservation boundary
  • County of Mille Lacs volume Melanie Benjamin and others / 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 volume Naftaly / by Skip Durocher
  • Part 4. Conclusions
  • The benefits of reestablished treaties.