Join the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the Ramsey County Library and the East Side Freedom Library for:

History Book Club: The Relentless Business of Treaties
Wednesday, October 16, 1 p.m.
Roseville Library, 2180 Hamline Avenue North, Roseville, MN (in the upstairs Boardroom)

Join the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the Ramsey County Library and the East Side Freedom Library for this month’s installment of the History Book Club as we read and discuss Martin Case’s The Relentless Business of Treaties from Minnesota Historical Society Press.

The story of “western expansion” is a familiar one: US government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property is the organizing principle upon which US society is based.

Participation is free and open to the public. Copies of the book are available at your local library and local, independent bookstores.

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