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Enduring Legacies
"This collection of essays by experts on Native American history examines historic agreements in light of recent and ongoing controversies. Claims to ancestral land bases are a prime example: the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 provides a context for addressing the Onondaga's claim to most of the Syracuse urban area. Treaties provide the foundation for such events as the modern-day rebirth of the Ponca Nation in Nebraska more than a century after a bureaucratic error resulted in banishment from ancestral land. One chapter explores why the U.S. Army still officially regards the tragic events at...
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