Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800

This readable yet sophisticated survey of treaty-making between Native and European Americans before 1800, recovers a deeper understanding of how Indians tried to forge a new society with whites on the multicultural frontiers of North America-an understanding that may enlighten our own task of protecting Native American rights and imagining racial justice.

Author: Robert A. Jr. Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/15/1999
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.07w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780415925778

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 128

About the Author

Robert A. Williams, Jr., is Professor of Law and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. A member of the Lumbee Indian tribe of North Carolina, he is author of the award-winning The American Indian in Western LegalThought (1990).