{"product_id":"the-relentless-business-of-treaties-how-indigenous-land-became-us-property-1681340909","title":"The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1681340909\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Case, Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of \"western expansion\" is a familiar one: U.S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property is the organizing principle upon which U.S. society is based.U.S. signers represented the relentless interests that drove treaty making: corporate and individual profit, political ambition, and assimilationist assumptions of cultural superiority. The lives of these men illustrate the assumptions inherent in the property system-and the dynamics by which it spread across the continent. In this book, for the first time, Case provides a comprehensive study of the treaty signers, exposing their business ties and multigenerational interrelationships through birth and marriage. Taking Minnesota as a case study, he describes the groups that shaped U.S. treaty making to further their own interests: interpreters, traders, land speculators, bureaucrats, officeholders, missionaries, and mining, timber, and transportation companies.Odds are, the deed to the land under your home rests on this system.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51971817799968,"sku":"NEW1681340909","price":16.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91JAY2SBs2L.jpg?v=1783781812","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-relentless-business-of-treaties-how-indigenous-land-became-us-property-1681340909","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}