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"Jeffrey Dudas has written an eloquent analysis of the politics of treaty rights as they have played out over the last few decades. His analysis develops a framework for understanding the language of "special rights" and the cultivation of resentment...Not only is the book important for scholars interested in studying Native Americans, but also for anyone who has an interest in the evolution and development of "backlash" and "counter-mobilizations;" the relationship between law and discourse in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."