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A highly readable and important study on the history of Native claims against the United States. . . . To my knowledge, this is the first sustained scholarly effort to link the acts of promise making and the consequences of promise-breaking between the US and the tribal nations with a close examination of the various institutional mechanisms developed over time to resolve those claims. --N. Bruce Duthu, author of American Indians and the Law --N. Bruce Duthu

There are a good number of books on the subject, but none provide the scope that this one does... I can surely see this becoming the standard book to which people turn when wanting to know the story of Indian claims. -Christian McMillen, author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory -- Christian McMillen A highly readable and important study on the history of Native claims against the United States... To my knowledge, this is the first sustained scholarly effort to link the acts of promise making and the consequences of promise-breaking between the US and the tribal nations with a close examination of the various institutional mechanisms developed over time to resolve those claims. -N. Bruce Duthu, author of American Indians and the Law -- N. Bruce Duthu

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David E. Wilkins holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, where he is also adjunct professor of political science, law, and American studies. He lives in Minneapolis, MN.

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