"Long-awaited and important

compel us to reconsider our own current expectations about what Indian people should be

that connect the themes throughout the book

Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity

The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property sexuality "Long-awaited and importantThe 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