TY - BOOK ID - 77874502 TI - Broken treaties PY - 2009 SN - 128213082X 9786612130823 0803224451 9780803224452 9780803215894 0803215894 6612130822 PB - Lincoln University of Nebraska Press DB - UniCat KW - Cree Indians KW - Lakota Indians KW - Lakota Sioux Indians KW - Lakotah Indians KW - Prairie dweller Indians KW - Sioux Indians, Western KW - Teton Indians KW - Teton Sioux Indians KW - Thítunwan Indians KW - Titunwan Indians KW - Western Sioux Indians KW - Siouan Indians KW - Indians of North America KW - Algonquian Indians KW - Treaties. KW - History KW - Government relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874502 AB - Broken Treaties is a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States-Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the "broken treaties" label imposed by nineteenth-century observers and perpetuated in the historical literature has obscured the implementation experience of both Native and non-Native participants and distorted our understanding of the relationships between them. As a result, historians have ignored the role of the Treaty of 1868 as the i ER -