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 ...
Virginia’s Mattaponi Indian Tribe has one of the oldest reservations in the country but is just now seeking federal ...
On Friday, November 22, 2024, three federally recognized California Tribal Nations—Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, Pulikla Tribe of ...
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(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 ...
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 ...