(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 ...

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 ...

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.

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But ...

By 1837, the Jackson administration had removed 46,000 Native American people from their land east of the Mississippi, and had secured treaties which led to the removal of a slightly larger number.

North American Indians shared their world with ... the removal of the majority of eastern woodland tribes via U.S.-Indian treaties during the 1820s to 1840s. Treaties remained as the legal means ...

will urge the ratification of the reciprocity treaties with France and the West Indian and South American countries, which failed of ratification in the Senate last year. View Full Article in ...