NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN The Treaty of Fort Wayne, 1809—a treaty that led to war—goes on exhibit In 1809, nearly 1,400 Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, and Eel River Indians and ...
With a new presidential administration incoming, it is time to focus forward and seek new opportunities for Tribal Nations and Indian Country prosperity.
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The Treaty with the Delaware Nation, signed at Fort Pitt in September 1778, represents a time when the newly independent United States needed American Indian allies to drive British troops from ...
HARNEY's chief clerk, IRWIN, has arrived from the Indian Council at the head waters of the Little Arkansas River. The Council was in session twenty-two days, and concluded treaties with the ...
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 ...
“I thought that your expert said that this is the way the Indians would have interpreted it,” Lynch said. “That this is a treaty that says the tribe could fish unmolested so long as they complied with ...
The U.S. Government began to make treaties with the Plains Indians during the 1850s to 1871 when a Congressional act halted the process of treaty-making with Indian nations. An important ...