To understand the current relationship Native American tribes have with the U.S. government, you have to look back at the treaties. For the Oglala Sioux Tribe, perhaps the biggest is 1868’s ...

The National Archives holds 377 ratified American Indian treaties ... Red Cloud and five other Native representatives declined to sign the treaty until the United States made good on a provision ...

Over 300 Native American reservations exist in the U.S. today, yet their history is marked by a legacy of broken promises. Treaties intended to protect Native lands and cultures were repeatedly ...

Was it inevitable that European Americans would seize Native Americans' land? The U.S. Government began to make treaties with the Plains Indians during the 1850s to 1871 when a Congressional act ...

On June 22, 2023, the United States Supreme Court handed down its third decision regarding federal Indian law this term. In a 5-4 decision, the Court held that the Navajo Treaty of 1868 does not ...

In the Treaty of 1868, the U.S. government promised ... of many whites when he said he favored a humane course to bring Native Americans "under the benign influences of education and civilization.

Signs nailed to a mile-marker at the DAPL protest show how far people came and from how many places to stand up for treaty rights and the right of Native Nations to be consulted as governments.