Their treaty predates the Constitution. Now the Mattaponi want recognition.
Virginia’s Mattaponi Indian Tribe has one of the oldest reservations in the country but is just now seeking federal ...
Thanksgiving stories gloss over the history of US settlement on Native lands
By Lisa Michelle King Too often, K-12 social studies classes in the U.S. teach a mostly glossed-over story of U.S. settlement ...
Smithsonian Magazine7y
The Treaty of Fort Wayne, 1809—a treaty that led to war—goes on exhibit
This September, representatives of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi saw the treaty go on view at the National Museum of the American Indian. “It is an honor to come full circle to an article that ...
King Philip's War: the Native American who rose up against the Pilgrims and brought about the Indian's doom
The bloodiest war in American history began a century before the Declaration of Independence when Native Americans tried to ...
Native News Online1d
Three California Tribes Sign Treaty to Manage the Yurok-Tolowa Dee-ni' Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area
On Friday, November 22, 2024, three federally recognized California Tribal Nations—Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, Pulikla Tribe of ...
While Teaching for Native American Heritage Month, Remember the Troubling Role of Schools in Indigenous History
Native people have always creatively resisted the violence of assimilative schooling. For each historical period of U.S.
The Times-Standard (Eureka) on MSN2d
Local tribes sign ocean protection treaty
Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, Pulikla Tribe of Yurok People, and Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria – signed an inter-tribal treaty of stewardship and responsibility Friday, November ...
New Zealand’s founding treaty is at a flashpoint. Why are thousands protesting for Māori rights?
Thousands of people are marching the length of New Zealand in protest of a proposed law that would redefine the country’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine6y
The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, Never Honored by the United States, Goes on Public View
(Paul Morigi/AP Images for Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian) “It is my wish that the United States would honor this treaty.” —Chief John Spotted Tail (Sicangu Lakota ...
PBS1y
Indian removal
They based this on United States policy; in former treaties, Indian nations had been declared sovereign so they would be legally capable of ceding their lands. Now the Cherokee hoped to use this ...
The New York Times23d
The Indian Treaties.
Frequent collisions have occurred between them, and there is little doubt but that the country is as much indebted to the people of Kansas for our Indian troubles as to all other causes combined.