The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property language reference have presence in the literature—but

have presence in the literature—but in context of the great acreage around them

Tracing the implications of refusal

Many legends have arisen around the figure of the Lakota warrior

poems directly address non-Native readers and public consciousness

Weaving together the voices of four indelible women

The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property language reference have presence in the literature—butThe 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