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A unique analysis of ASEAN's method of concluding external trade agreements with non-ASEAN states, with clear alternatives for the future.
Originally published in 1974, just as the Wounded Knee occupation was coming to an end, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties raises disturbing questions about the status of American Indians within the American and international political landscapes. Analyzing the history of Indian treaty relations with the United States, Vine Deloria presents population and land ownership information to support his argument that many Indian tribes have more impressive landholdings than some small members of the United Nations. Yet American Indians are not even accorded status within the UN's trust territories recognition process. A 2000 study published by the Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law recommends that the United Nations offer membership to the Iroquois, Cherokee, Navajo, and other Indian tribes. Ironically, the study also recommends that smaller tribes band together to form a confederation to seek membership—a suggestion nearly identical to the one the United States made to the Delaware Indians in 1778—and that a presidential commission explore ways to move beyond the Doctrine of Discovery, under which European nations justified their confiscation of Indian lands. Many of these ideas appear here in this book, which predates the 2000 study by twenty-six years. Thus, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties anticipates recent events as history comes full circle, making the book imperative reading for anyone wishing to understand the background of the movement of American Indians onto the world political stage. In the quarter century since this book was written, Indian nations have taken great strides in demonstrating their claims to recognized nationhood. Together with Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations, by Deloria and David E. Wilkins, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties highlights the historical events that helped bring these changes to fruition. At the conclusion of Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties, Deloria states: "The recommendations made in the Twenty Points and the justification for such a change as articulated in the book may well come to pass in our lifetime." Now we are seeing his statement come true.
Nation to Nation explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native Nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold on to traditional homelands and ways of life. The book reveals how the ideas of honor, fair dealings, good faith, rule of law, and peaceful relations between nations have been tested and challenged in historical and modern times. The book consistently demonstrates how and why centuries-old treaties remain living, relevant documents for both Natives and non-Natives in the 21st century.
This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority.
Excerpt from The Treaty-Making Power in the United States: An Address It is not easy for a Diplomatic officer, in search of a subject upon which to address a serious-minded body like the Oxford University British-American Club, to select a topic at the same time sufficiently concrete to be of interest, and sufficiently abstract to be within his permitted limits. He must forgo, of course, any discussion of matters in train between his Government and the one to which he is accredited; he must be dumb upon all political questions agitating his own countrymen; while as to those which disturb the serenity of his hosts he must, for his life, be not only dumb but to outward appearance deaf as well. Such restrictions, you will realize, are rather a severe abridgement of the Constitutional right of free speech. They leave their unfortunate subject little secure footing outside the realm of palaeontology or the higher mathematics. I believe, however, that I shall not transgress if I ask you to consider the history and scope of the treaty-making power of the United States, or rather, from the point of view I have in mind, their treaty-making machinery. It is not impossible that some of its manifestations have come to your attention within the last twelve months; and from time to time there has been reason to fear that not all who witnessed its revolutions, or heard the clanking of its parts, have understood the mechanical principles by which it was controlled. Doubtless none of this audience fall within this category; but since you exist not only to secure but to disseminate information between our countries, I offer no apology for inviting your attention to the particular function of government with which all nations are reciprocally concerned. There is a peculiar reason for such studies on the part of Britons and Americans. As no two nations are so much alike, so none are exposed to greater danger from a failure to recognize their differences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.