Enduring legacies : Native American treaties and contemporary controversies

The "lobster war", the Marshall Decision, and emerging Canadian First Nations' treaty rights / Sovereign municipalities : twenty years after the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 / The Treaty of Canandaigua (1794) : past and present / The Iroquois land claims : a legacy of fraud, politics, and dispossession / The New York Oneidas : a business called a nation / The Greenville Treaty of 1795 : pen-and-ink witchcraft in the struggle for the Old Northwest / Rebirth of the Osni (northern) Ponca / Wounded Knee, 1890 : battle or massacre : a treaty context / How the Osages kept their oil / Kennewick Man : the facts, the fantasies, and the stakes / The new terminators : a guide to the antitreaty movement

The Praeger handbook on contemporary issues in Native America

Native America : yesterday and today,

Native America (Praeger Publishers)

Linguistic, ethnic, and economic revival -- Foreword / Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dedication : on the passing of Vine Deloria Jr. -- Back from the (nearly) dead : reviving indigenous languages across North America -- Where has all the money gone? -- Economic revival : up from the bottom on the reservation -- High-stakes genealogy : when is a Pequot not a Pequot? -- Names and games : the controversy regarding "Indian" sports mascots and place-names -- Comprehensive index -- Legal, cultural, and environmental revival -- Introduction -- 1. Cast among the living dead : banishment is back -- Beyond a reasonable doubt : the curious conviction of Leonard Peltier -- Grandfathers of Akwesasne Mohawk revitalization : Ray Fadden and Ernest Benedict -- Mestizo Nation : La Plaza de Seattle -- Back to bushmeat and berries -- new Inuit -- high price of uranium in Navajo and Dene Country -- Catharsis vis-à-vis oppression : contemporary Native American political humor -- Selected bibliography -- Comprehensive index.