Articles related to "Land Cessions"

In September of 1830, the Choctaw Nation ceded 11 million acres of land to the American government in a controversial treaty.

Having, through a variety of methods, convinced tribal leaders to cede their lands, the U.S. government enacted a policy of mass removal to a new frontier...Oklahoma.

Since 1787, over 750 land cessions have been authorized by supposed mutual compacts. History demostrates there was little that was mutual about these "treaties."

The Second Seminole War was fought between 1835 and 1842, but the seeds of discontent were sown as early as 1817.

Founded in 1970, the Native American Rights Fund has served as a national advocacy group for 37 years and made great strides in the quest for equality.

Though of the same nation, Keokuk and Black Hawk were on opposite sides of the debate on the topic of land cessions.

The Treaty of Ft. Jackson took 26 million acres of land away from the Creek Nation, but a determined band of Creek moved to Florida and continued to resist.

Many people assume that during this treaty making process the First Nations involved were passive participants and blindly accepted what the government offered.

After relocation, the Five Civilized Tribes settled into unfamiliar territory in Oklahoma. Gradually, however, they found their new home partitioned by the Americans.

The birth of Red Power led to the creation of one of the most controversial Native American activist organizations--the American Indian Movement.

His alliance in ruins, Tecumseh sided with the British in the War of 1812.

Review of the history of slavery in the Cherokee Nation.

Rather than watch his people fade into history, Handome Lake started a new religion that provided the Iroquois Confederacy with a cultural revival.