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X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent

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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks indicated coercion (because the treaties were made under unfair conditions), resistance (because they were often met with protest), and acquiescence (to both a European modernity and the end of a particular moment of Indian history and identity).

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X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent 2010, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN

ISBN-13: 9780816666775

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X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent 2010, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN

ISBN-13: 9780816666768

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