... . Treaties were often signed after warfare, when terms could be dictated. Modern historians see even the famous treaties with the Iroquois confederacy not simply in terms of rights, but as part of British political strategies designed to deal with the French and with the other tribes further inland. The history involves warfare, brutality and manipulation. But it also clearly involves European colonial powers seeking to gain rights from ... lines on the issue of treaty rights. They agreed with the decision in the court below which enforced the federal legislation. However, the most impor...

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