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Keeping Promises describes the complex but important relationship between Indian tribes and the U.S. government throughout more than two hundred years of war and treaties. Learn how land, ceremony, tradition, history, law, and politics intersect to define tribal sovereignty and understand how Indians define themselves, their tribes, and their sovereignty in this detailed overview from Native journalists Betty Reid (Navajo) and Ben Winton (Pascua Yaqui Aztec, Crow).
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