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American Indian Treaties | National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/treaties
Learn about the history and records of treaties between the U.S. and American Indian nations from 1774 to 1871. Explore the online exhibit "Rights of Native Americans" and find additional resources on treaties and federal law.

Viewing American Indian Treaties | National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/treaties/viewing-treaties
Learn about the original treaties between the U.S. and American Indian tribal nations, digitized and available online through multiple sources. Explore exhibits, education resources, and related records on the history and significance of treaties.

Nation to Nation | Treaties Between the United States and American

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Explore the history and significance of treaties between the United States and Native Peoples, who were independent sovereign nations. See examples of treaties from 1778 to 1868, on loan from the National Archives and Records Administration.

Research Guides: American Indian Law: A Beginner's Guide: Treaties

https://guides.loc.gov/american-indian-law/Treaties
American Indian treaties from this era can normally be found in two main resources: Charles Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (Kappler's) and the United States Statutes at Large. Kappler's is a seven-volume compilation of treaties, statutes, and executive documents related to American Indian tribes. Treaties and agreements between

American Indian Treaties Portal

http://treatiesportal.unl.edu/
Explore the digital collection of 375 American Indian treaties recognized by the U.S. Department of State and other related documents. Learn about the history, analysis, and significance of these treaties through various studies and resources.

American Indian Treaties: Catalog Links | National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/treaties/catalog-links
The series, "Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869" (National Archives Identifier 299798), has been digitized in full and made available online through the National Archives Catalog. Digitized treaties can be explored by date or by tribe. For each treaty, click on the National Archives Identifier (NAID) to view digital images of the treaty and all related documents in the file

Facts About Treaties - National Museum of the American Indian

https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/plains-treaties/pdf/Facts-About-Treaties-PL-M2.pdf
Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land."5 2 For more information about the history of American Indian treaties, see full essays in Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, ed. Susan Harjo, (Washington, DC:

Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American

https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/nation-nation-treaties-between-united-states-and-american-indian-nations
Learn about the history and significance of treaties between the United States and American Indian tribes from a Native perspective. Explore the exhibition and book by the National Museum of the American Indian, featuring Native and non-Native scholars and activists.

Search Treaties

https://digitreaties.org/treaties/treaties/
About Treaties Explorer. The National Archives Office of Innovation partnered with the Indigenous Digital Archive project of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, to provide context about and connection to the National Archives' holdings of the Ratified Indian Treaties, newly conserved and scanned for the first time thanks to the generous gift of an anonymous donor.

Tribal Treaties Database

https://treaties.okstate.edu/
The Tribal Treaties Database provides an easy-to-use portal to access treaties, agreements, and other historical documents that have shaped relationships between tribal nations and the United States. These treaties represent pivotal moments in history where rights were negotiated, promises made, and the course of lives and nations forever altered.

Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations

http://treatiesportal.unl.edu/earlytreaties/
For much of the last century, Charles J. Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties has served as the primary resource for the final texts of treaties made between American Indian tribes and the United States government. In that collation, Kappler included, along with other important materials, 366 of the 375 instruments recognized by the Department of State .

American Indian treaties : a guide to ratified and unratified colonial

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It summarizes colonial Indian treaty discourse, intertribal treaties and diplomacy, the different eras of ratified and unratified U.S. treaties, foreign and state treaties with Indian nations, and the Indian agreements that followed the cessation of official treaty-making. It provides extensive lists of over 1,500 Indian treaties from all

Broken Treaties With Native American Tribes: Timeline

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Learn how the United States signed and violated treaties with various Indigenous peoples from 1778 to 1871, leading to conflicts, wars and forced removals. Explore the key treaties, dates, locations and outcomes of the U.S.-Native relations.

Native American Treaties Now Online for the First Time

https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2021/nr21-03
Hundreds of Native American treaties have been scanned and are freely available online, for the first time, through the National Archives Catalog. Also, in partnership with The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), these treaties and extensive additional historical and contextual information are available through Treaties Explorer (or DigiTreaties). Archivist of the United States David S

IDA Treaties Explorer

https://digitreaties.org/
Welcome to the IDA Treaties Explorer. While treaties between Indigenous peoples and the United States affect virtually every area in the USA, there is as yet no official list of all the treaties. The US National Archives holds 374 of the treaties, where they are known as the Ratified Indian Treaties. Here you can view them for the first time

Understanding Indian Treaties in American History and Law

https://www.cmich.edu/research/clarke-historical-library/explore-collection/explore-online/native-american-material/native-american-treaty-rights/understanding-indian-treaties-in-american-history-and-law
Last, Indian treaties should be liberally construed in favor of the Indians. The courts evolved these three rules out of a recognition that treaties were a European legal mechanism that was written in English and was negotiated on an uneven playing field. Because the federal government had so many advantages in negotiating treaties the burden

Treaty Boundaries and Cessions - Library of Congress

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This map shows the lands assigned to the Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox, and Winnebago peoples in Iowa a year prior to statehood in 1846. Map depicts territorial and county boundaries, Native American lands, several treaty lines devised at the Treaty of Prairie du Chien in 1830, an Indian agency and mission, and Anglo-American settlements.

Native American treaties: What it would mean if the US honored them - Vox

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/9/23/20872713/native-american-indian-treaties
In many treaties, the federal government agreed to guarantee education, health care, housing, and other services to Indian tribes. The United States also agreed to manage and protect Indian tribes

What are Indian treaty rights? | Indian Affairs

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From 1778 to 1871, the United States' relations with individual American Indian nations indigenous to what is now the U.S. were defined and conducted largely through the treaty-making process. These "contracts among nations" recognized and established unique sets of rights, benefits, and conditions for the treaty-making tribes who agreed

American Indian Treaties: Supporting Documentation

https://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/treaties/supporting-documentation
Between 1774 and 1871, the U.S. government negotiated 377 treaties with American Indian nations. The National Archives Building in Washington, DC (Archives 1), houses the original treaties. These records are available as Microfilm Publication M668 or online through the National Archives Catalog, Ancestry.com, and Fold3.com. In addition to the original treaties, researchers can find many other

Indian Treaties and the Removal Act of 1830 - Office of the Historian

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/indian-treaties
Indian Treaties and the Removal Act of. 1830. The U.S. Government used treaties as one means to displace Indians from their tribal lands, a mechanism that was strengthened with the Removal Act of 1830. In cases where this failed, the government sometimes violated both treaties and Supreme Court rulings to facilitate the spread of European

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties - Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

https://library.okstate.edu/search-and-find/collections/digital-collections/indian-affairs-laws-and-treaties/
Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, this historically significant, seven volume compilation contains U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII).

Indian Treaties Database | Ministry of External Affairs, Government of

https://www.mea.gov.in/treaty.htm
Indian Treaties Database Legal and Treaties Division. Legal and Treaties Division of the Ministry of External Affairs was created in 1957 as a nodal point to deal with all aspects of International law advise to the Government of India. This Division is the sole source of legal advice for the Ministry of External Affairs.

Medicine Lodge Creek Treaty on View at NMAI | National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/medicine-lodge-creek-treaty-on-view
The decision stated the government had the right to cancel treaties with Native Americans and to dissolve the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation. "In connection with the display of the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek at the National Museum of the American Indian, we recently digitized the landmark 1903 Supreme Court Case Lone Wolf v.