Dr Charles Prior
Treatied States of America: Interior Diplomacy and the Contest for (Native) American Resources
People Involved
Project Description
Between them, Britain and the United States concluded nearly 1000 agreements with Native American nations. Historians have dismissed treaties as instruments of colonial and then national domination, and in doing that have obscured their international character as agreements between sovereign powers. That point of historical distinction is critically important in the present, where the resurgence of Native American sovereignty is predicated on treaties as binding and determinative on questions of natural resources, water, minerals, timber, oil, as well as land, law, courts constitutions and the nature of the interior sovereign jurisdiction of states.
| Project Acronym | WAAT |
|---|---|
| Status | Project Complete |
| Value | £175,403.00 |
| Project Dates | Sep 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2027 |
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