Bartering with the bones of their dead : the Colville Confederated Tribes and termination

Bartering with the bones of their dead : the Colville Confederated Tribes and termination /

Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arnold, Laurie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Colville Indians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Washington (State) > Colville Indian Reservation.
Colville Indians > Government relations.
Colville Indians > Politics and government.
Indian termination policy > Washington (State) > Colville Indian Reservation.
Self-determination, National > Washington (State) > Colville Indian Reservation.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > Native American.
Colville Indians > Government relations
Colville Indians > Legal status, laws, etc.
Indian termination policy
Self-determination, National
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation > History.
Colville Indian Reservation (Wash.) > History.
Colville Indian Reservation (Wash.)
Colville Indian Reservation (Wash.) > Histoire.
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Washington (State) > Colville Indian Reservation
History
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Table of Contents:
  • "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"
  • "We kept getting a little bit smarter."

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