Introduction / Suzan Shown Harjo. American Indian land and American empire : an interview with Philip J. Deloria / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Treaties with Native Nations : iconic historical relics or modern necessity? / Robert N. Clinton. Treaties as recognition of the nation-to-nation relationship / Matthew L.M. Fletcher -- Linking arms and brightening the chain : building relations through treaties / Richard W. Hill, Sr. The two-row wampum belt / Mark G. Hirsch ; William Penn's treaty and the Shackamaxon elm tree / Arwen Nuttall ; Illegal state treaties / Mark G. Hirsch -- Unintended consequences : Johnson v. M'Intosh and Indian removal / Lindsay G. Robertson. Removal treaties : an interview with Carey N. Vicenti / Suzan Shown Harjo ; Avoiding removal : the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians / Matthew L.M. Fletcher -- Great Treaty Council at Horse Creek / Raymond J. DeMaillie. Language and world view at the Horse Creek Treaty / Arwen Nuttall ; "The Indians were the spoken word" : an interview with N. Scott Momaday / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Naal Tsoos Saní : the Navajo Treaty of 1868, nation building, and self-determination / Jennifer Nez Denetdale. Treaties my ancestors made for me: a family treaty history / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Betrayal of "civilization" in United States-Native Nations diplomacy : Pawnee treaties and cultural genocide / James Riding In. American Indian scouts / Mark G. Hirsch ; "Civilization" and the Hupa flower dance ceremony / Lois J. Risling -- Rights guaranteed by solemn treaties. The game and fish were made for us : hunting and fishing rights in Native Nations' treaties / Hank Adams ; The anti-treaty movement in the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes / Suzan Shown Harjo ; River by river : treaty rights in Washington State : an interview with Susan Hvalsoe Komori / Suzan Shown Harjo ; "The fish helped to bring people together": an interview with Zoltán Grossman / Suzan Shown Harjo ; Arthur Duhamel : treaty fisherman / Matthew L.M. Fletcher ; Rights we always had : an interview with Tina Kuckkahn / Suzan Shown Harjo -- From dislocation to self-determination : Native Nations and the United States in the twentieth century / Kevin Gover. The treaty with the Lower Klamath, Upper Klamath, and Trinity River Indians--and who we are today / Lois J. Risling ; Treaties and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Arwen Nuttall ; Modern treaties : an interview with Ben Nighthorse Campbell / Suzan Shown Harjo ; Treaties and contemporary American Indian cultures / W. Richard West, Jr.