Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination

Name: Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination
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ISBN: 9780295992280

ISBN-10: 029599228X

ISBN-13: 9780295992280

Edition: 2012

Authors: Laurie Arnold

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Bartering with the Bones of their Deadtells the 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 that pursued termination.Some Colville tribal members who favored termination…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 12/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.02" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



"We want to be Indians forever."



"It is like giving your eagle feather away."



"Soon buried in a junk pile of Cadillacs."



"What is their future?"



"Come back from your pilgrimage to nowhere."



"Not another inch, not another drop."


Conclusion: "We kept getting a little bit smarter."


Appendix: Major Legislation Affecting the Colville Confederated Tribes


Notes


References


Index