Acts of Rebellion
Subtitle: The Ward Churchill Reader
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 13, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780415931564
First sentence: AS ANYONE WHO HAS EVER DEBATED OR NEGOTIATED WITH U.S. OFFICIALS ON matters concerning American Indian land rights can attest, the federal government's first position is invariably that its title to/authority over its territoriality was acquired incrementally, mostly through provisions of cession contained in some 400 treaties with Indians ratified by the Senate between 1778 and 1871.