Bob Anderson on Treaty Substitutes in the Modern Era

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Bob Anderson has posted “Treaty Substitutes in the Modern Era” on SSRN. This paper is a book chapter in the forthcoming book “The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest,” edited by Alexandra Harmon.

Here is the abstract:

This chapter compares two modern Indian property settlements processes – the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Snake River Basin Water Rights Settlement – with the mode of agreements in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-19th Century.