Alexandra Harmon is associate professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington and author of Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound. Other contributors are Robert Anderson, Russel Lawrence Barsh, Ravi de Costa, Andrew H. Fisher, Hamar Foster, Chris Friday, Alan Grove, Douglas C. Harris, Kent McNeil, Paige Raigmon, Arthur Ray, and Bruce Rigsby.

• Foreword / John Borrows Introduction: Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and International Historical Perspective / Alexandra HarmonI. Colonial ConceitsNegotiated Sovereignty: Indian Treaties and the Acquisition of American and Canadian Territorial Rights in the Pacific Northwest / Kent McNeilUnmaking Native Space: A Genealogy of Indian Policy, Settler Practice, and the Microtechniques of Dispossession / Paige RaibmonII. Cross-Border Influences"Trespassers on the Soil": United States v. Tom and a New Perspective on the Short History of Treaty Making in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / Hamar Foster and Alan GroveThe Boldt Decision in Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights to Fish on the Pacific / Douglas C. HarrisIII. Indigenous Interpretations and ResponsesPerforming Treaties: The Culture and Politics of Treaty Remembrance and Celebration / Chris FridayReserved for Whom? Defending and Defining Treaty Rights on the Columbia River, 1880-1920 / Andrew H. Fisher Ethnogenesis and Ethnonationalism from Competing Treaty Claims / Russel Lawrence BarshThe Stevens Treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket 264, and the Ancient One known as Kennewick Man / Bruce RigsbyIV. Power Relations in Contemporary Forums "History Wars" and Treaty Rights in Canada: A Canadian Case Study / Arthur J. RayHistory, Democracy, and Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia / Ravi de CostaTreaty Substitutes in the Modern Era / Robert T. Anderson ContributorsIndex

"The Power of Promises provides the reader with a complex and international understanding of treaties in the Pacific Northwest. . . . Any scholar or student of Native American history would benefit from reading and wrestling with the ideas and interpretations in this volume."

Alexandra Harmon is associate professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington and author of Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound. Other contributors are Robert Anderson, Russel Lawrence Barsh, Ravi de Costa, Andrew H. Fisher, Hamar Foster, Chris Friday, Alan Grove, Douglas C. Harris, Kent McNeil, Paige Raigmon, Arthur Ray, and Bruce Rigsby.

• Foreword / John Borrows Introduction: Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and International Historical Perspective / Alexandra HarmonI. Colonial ConceitsNegotiated Sovereignty: Indian Treaties and the Acquisition of American and Canadian Territorial Rights in the Pacific Northwest / Kent McNeilUnmaking Native Space: A Genealogy of Indian Policy, Settler Practice, and the Microtechniques of Dispossession / Paige RaibmonII. Cross-Border Influences"Trespassers on the Soil": United States v. Tom and a New Perspective on the Short History of Treaty Making in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / Hamar Foster and Alan GroveThe Boldt Decision in Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights to Fish on the Pacific / Douglas C. HarrisIII. Indigenous Interpretations and ResponsesPerforming Treaties: The Culture and Politics of Treaty Remembrance and Celebration / Chris FridayReserved for Whom? Defending and Defining Treaty Rights on the Columbia River, 1880-1920 / Andrew H. Fisher Ethnogenesis and Ethnonationalism from Competing Treaty Claims / Russel Lawrence BarshThe Stevens Treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket 264, and the Ancient One known as Kennewick Man / Bruce RigsbyIV. Power Relations in Contemporary Forums "History Wars" and Treaty Rights in Canada: A Canadian Case Study / Arthur J. RayHistory, Democracy, and Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia / Ravi de CostaTreaty Substitutes in the Modern Era / Robert T. Anderson ContributorsIndex

"The Power of Promises provides the reader with a complex and international understanding of treaties in the Pacific Northwest. . . . Any scholar or student of Native American history would benefit from reading and wrestling with the ideas and interpretations in this volume."

Alexandra Harmon is associate professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington and author of Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound. Other contributors are Robert Anderson, Russel Lawrence Barsh, Ravi de Costa, Andrew H. Fisher, Hamar Foster, Chris Friday, Alan Grove, Douglas C. Harris, Kent McNeil, Paige Raigmon, Arthur Ray, and Bruce Rigsby.

• Foreword / John Borrows Introduction: Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and International Historical Perspective / Alexandra HarmonI. Colonial ConceitsNegotiated Sovereignty: Indian Treaties and the Acquisition of American and Canadian Territorial Rights in the Pacific Northwest / Kent McNeilUnmaking Native Space: A Genealogy of Indian Policy, Settler Practice, and the Microtechniques of Dispossession / Paige RaibmonII. Cross-Border Influences"Trespassers on the Soil": United States v. Tom and a New Perspective on the Short History of Treaty Making in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / Hamar Foster and Alan GroveThe Boldt Decision in Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights to Fish on the Pacific / Douglas C. HarrisIII. Indigenous Interpretations and ResponsesPerforming Treaties: The Culture and Politics of Treaty Remembrance and Celebration / Chris FridayReserved for Whom? Defending and Defining Treaty Rights on the Columbia River, 1880-1920 / Andrew H. Fisher Ethnogenesis and Ethnonationalism from Competing Treaty Claims / Russel Lawrence BarshThe Stevens Treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket 264, and the Ancient One known as Kennewick Man / Bruce RigsbyIV. Power Relations in Contemporary Forums "History Wars" and Treaty Rights in Canada: A Canadian Case Study / Arthur J. RayHistory, Democracy, and Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia / Ravi de CostaTreaty Substitutes in the Modern Era / Robert T. Anderson ContributorsIndex

"The Power of Promises provides the reader with a complex and international understanding of treaties in the Pacific Northwest. . . . Any scholar or student of Native American history would benefit from reading and wrestling with the ideas and interpretations in this volume."