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Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead
Laurie Arnold
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Description for Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead
Paperback.
Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation. Over one hundred federally recognized Indian tribes and bands lost their sovereignty after the Eisenhower Administration enacted a policy known as termination, which was carefully designed to end the federal-Indian relationship and to dissolve Indian identity. Most tribes and bands fought this policy; the Colville Confederated Tribes of north-central Washington State offer a rare example of a tribe who pursued termination.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295992280
SKU
V9780295992280
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Ref
99-1
About Laurie Arnold
Laurie Arnold is the director of Native American Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. She is an enrolled member of the Lakes Band of Colville Confederated Tribes.
Reviews for Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead
"This work is a significant contribution to the ever-growing array of studies of termination and Indian life."
John H. Barnhill
Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources
"This is an excellent tribal case study of the kind and caliber needed for further understanding of the termination era. It shows how complicated, intense, and permutable the positions and arguments on ... Read more
John H. Barnhill
Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources
"This is an excellent tribal case study of the kind and caliber needed for further understanding of the termination era. It shows how complicated, intense, and permutable the positions and arguments on ... Read more