Covered with Night A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America PB Sovereignty swaying balances of living both

swaying balances of living both in town and on the land

This 272-page volume released in 2014 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

17-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared from downtown Saskatoon

the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota

Covered with Night A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America PB Sovereignty swaying balances of living bothNicole Eustace is professor of history at New York University. On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross cultural negotiations that challenged