• What was new, however, was the sense of urgency that, with or without consent, tribes must be terminated and begin to live "as Americans. (wikipedia.org)
  • In practical terms, the policy ended the federal government's recognition of sovereignty of tribes, trusteeship over Indian reservations, and the exclusion of state law's applicability to Native persons. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Opening Keynote Address The policy for termination of tribes collided with the Native American peoples' own desires to preserve Native identity. (wikipedia.org)
  • House concurrent resolution 108 of 1953 announced the federal policy of termination and called for the immediate ending of the Federal relationship with a selected group of tribes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The termination of these tribes ended federal government guardianship of and recognition of those tribal governments and US jurisdiction of tribal lands. (wikipedia.org)
  • Given the considerable geographic isolation of many reservations and inherent economic problems, not many tribes had the funds to continue such services after termination was implemented. (wikipedia.org)
  • The tribes initially selected for termination had been considered groups who were the most successful in the United States, in some cases, because of natural resources controlled by their reservations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Through the Indian Claims Commission, tribes had the ability to file claims against the government for breaches of treaty or grievances. (wikipedia.org)
  • In some instances, pending claims cases with complex legal issues aided the tribes in preventing termination, while in others, tribes were taken advantage again by government agents and their associates. (wikipedia.org)
  • I'd never put that together with the timeline for the termination bill and what effect it had on the first five tribes slated to be terminated. (ijpr.org)
  • So the first tribes slated for termination were the Menominee and the Klamath. (ijpr.org)
  • But the continuing need in Indian country for creative legal assistance to enable Indian tribes, as sovereign governments, to regain control over their resources and their destiny is equally evident. (encyclopedia.com)
  • During its history, NARF has represented more than 200 tribes in thirty-one states in such areas as tribal restoration and recognition, jurisdiction, land claims, water rights , hunting and fishing rights, the protection of Indian religious freedom, Indian child welfare, and voting rights. (encyclopedia.com)
  • An implicit oath of blood was made during the termination era of the 1950s, when the United States severed its government-to-government relationship, based on a legal trust relationship with American Indian tribes. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In the 1832 Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia, Chief Justice John Marshall 's opinion had carved out a special, separate constitutional status for Indian tribes. (encyclopedia.com)
  • However, by standing their ground and established legal doctrine, Indians beat back termination-President Nixon famously said that "there will be no further termination of Indian tribes, but self-determination for Indians. (josephy.org)
  • Even then, Indians learned from their misfortune, met people from other tribes, studied at universities, learned to have a foot in two worlds. (josephy.org)
  • One manner in which we can seek to understand aboriginal California Indian cultures is to look at the tribes inhabiting similar climatic and ecological zones. (ca.gov)
  • Nevertheless, all of these tribes enjoyed an abundance of acorn and salmon that could be readily obtained in the waterways north of Monterey Bay. (ca.gov)
  • It is a pattern that bears witness to over a century of policy between the U.S. federal government and tribes in North America. (potawatomi.org)
  • Euro-American reformers took it upon themselves to be the stewards and arbiters of the so-called "civilization" of Native tribes. (potawatomi.org)
  • Following millennia during which Native tribes successfully policed their own communities, the Major Crimes Act of 1885 gave the federal government jurisdiction over several serious crimes committed by Indians or non-Indians on Indian lands, including rape and murder, a move that was and is characterized as a direct assault on tribal sovereignty. (truthout.org)
  • Gabe Galanda, an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and an Indian law attorney said Stossel's lumping together of Indians, Puerto Ricans, African Americans and Irish reveals a lack of knowledge about the sovereignty of Indian nations. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Stossel, like many Americans, fails to fundamentally appreciate that tribes are governments, not 'groups' of individuals as he says," he said, pointing that American Indians are the only Americans who are indigenous to the United States and the only peoples to whom the U.S. owes a trust responsibility. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • They should be able to name the five tribes that live in Idaho and dispel misconceptions about Native American people. (idahoednews.org)
  • But when asked about the Native American curriculum in their schools, many education leaders point only to fourth grade, when Idaho history is featured (including information on tribes living in the Gem state). (idahoednews.org)
  • Students need to learn about "accurate historical AND contemporary aspects and perspectives of the five federally recognized tribes of Idaho," Johanna Jones, coordinator of State Department of Education's Indian Education department, wrote in an email. (idahoednews.org)
  • The American Indian Experience: The American Mosaic illuminates the historical and contemporary practices and tribulations of more than 150 Native American tribes from all regions of North America. (abc-clio.com)
  • In the following decades, the court often deferred to Congress, which shifted its policy from subjugation to assimilation, and then to termination of federally recognized tribes in the 1950s. (hcn.org)
  • From the Native standpoint, a former US Senator from Colorado Ben Nighthorse Campbell, of the Northern Cheyenne, said of assimilation and termination in a speech delivered in Montana: If you can't change them, absorb them until they simply disappear into the mainstream culture. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a result of federal allotment, assimilation and termination policies, which remain in force to this day despite Congress' repudiation of those policies, some tribal communities are in fact worse off socio-economically than most other American citizens," Galanda said. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • By the time Idaho students turn the tassels on their graduation caps, they should know about forced assimilation, boarding schools, treaties, and tribal sovereignty. (idahoednews.org)
  • In the late 1950s, however, to implement their inhuman policy, the United States government cut off the reservations' already meager supply of food and commodities-the pitiful little "payment" they had promised the Indians in their treaties to recompense Indians for all the vast and holy continent they'd stolen. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • The first of the Indians' 20 Points demanded the restoration of their constitutional treaty-making powers, removed by the provision in the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act, and the next seven concerned recognition of the sovereignty of Indian nations and the revalidation of treaties, including the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • In 1949, the Hoover Commission reports, recommending integration of Native peoples into mainstream society, and the 1952 House Report (HR No. 2503), investigating the Bureau of Indian Affairs, both portrayed termination as cost effective and benign in its effects. (wikipedia.org)
  • Reservations governed by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs are intended in part to keep Native American lands off the private real estate market, preventing sales to non-Indians. (dailydigitalnews.com)
  • The termination policy was changed in the 1960s and rising activism resulted in the ensuing decades of restoration of tribal governments and increased Native American self-determination. (wikipedia.org)
  • Activism of the Civil Rights Era contributed to yet another policy swing in the direction of tribal self-governance, this time in the form of the Indian Self-Determination Education and Assistance Act of 1975. (potawatomi.org)
  • Federal policy up until the 1940s had mainly held that the Federal Government had sole jurisdiction over Indians. (wikipedia.org)
  • To outsiders, it might seem astonishing that reservation Indians know of concepts such as "sovereignty" and "jurisdiction. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Federal Indian law is often unfamiliar territory to Supreme Court justices, even though the court makes significant decisions affecting tribal sovereignty, criminal jurisdiction, and land and water rights. (hcn.org)
  • That leaves six justices with little to no experience in Indian law who are wary of recognizing tribal jurisdiction, specifically when it involves power over non-Natives. (hcn.org)
  • Indian termination is a phrase describing United States policies relating to Native Americans from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was shaped by a series of laws and practices with the intent of assimilating Native Americans into mainstream American society. (wikipedia.org)
  • From the government's perspective, Native Americans were to become taxpaying citizens subject to state and federal taxes as well as laws from which they had previously been exempt. (wikipedia.org)
  • These actions affected more than 12,000 Native Americans or 3% of the total Native American population. (wikipedia.org)
  • Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and much of her writing is centered on the experience of Native Americans. (ijpr.org)
  • Those were thrown out the window by both houses of Congress and to simply declare the existence of Indians or Native American or American Indians a non-issue and to not recognize tribal nations. (ijpr.org)
  • Since its founding in 1970, the presence of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) in Indian country in the United States has become very evident. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Native Americans felt the federal policy of termination had to be slowed, halted, and then reversed. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The mostly Native American activists had a clear, motivated aim of halting construction of the pipeline and were nonviolent in their approach. (resilience.org)
  • Water problems on one reservation and a lawsuit over education on another creep into the news, but, for the most part, Indians and tribal concerns are background noise once again, caught occasionally by a local press, or by an environmental media newly awakened to Indian allies, covered regularly only in Native news outlets. (josephy.org)
  • The Modocs spectacular 1872 resistance to removal to the Oregon territory was the last heroic military defense of native sovereignty in 19th century California Indian History. (ca.gov)
  • By dividing land held in common and conferring U.S. citizenship on Native individuals through these policies, the federal government sought to disintegrate tribalism and assimilate Native people into the dominant Euro-American social order. (potawatomi.org)
  • The United States has historically done a disservice to Native Americans, by and through genocidal and assimilationist federal policies. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • The ignorance behind the statements made by John Stossel poured salt into the slowly healing wounds of Native Americans and added disgrace to an already shameful page in American History," Allan wrote in his letter Monday. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • The act facilitated a paternalistic approach to Native Americans designed to force them to give up their nomadic ways and to settle on isolated reservations, where they were expected to learn farming and take up "civilized" ways of life. (jsk.se)
  • As available western lands were occupied by white ranchers, homesteaders, and miners, new federal policies forced Native Americans from lands that were theirs by tradition or treaty and onto reservations. (jsk.se)
  • Retrieved January 12, 2021 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/indian-policy, Ending Native American Sovereignty. (jsk.se)
  • Federal Native American policy is considered by many to be an aberration in the U.S. legal system. (jsk.se)
  • Tracing the history of U.S.-Indian relations reveals that Native American policy is not actually a coherent body of principles, but an aggregate of policies derived from many sources over time. (jsk.se)
  • Source: Anthony F.C. "Native American Policy With only small allocations of land many could not support themselves. (jsk.se)
  • https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/native-american-policy, "Native American Policy Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. (jsk.se)
  • The United States Policy regarding Native Americans was dominated by U.S desire for land and resources. (jsk.se)
  • For every three acres owned by Native Americans in the 1880s, two were no longer under their control by the 1920s as a result of the Dawes Act. (jsk.se)
  • And they should be well aware that Native Americans exist beyond the pages of history books. (idahoednews.org)
  • Yet still today, Native Americans throughout the state experience vast ignorance from some non-Native people, who ask if they grew up with running water or live in teepees, or express surprise at meeting a Native person. (idahoednews.org)
  • According to Idaho's content standards - a comprehensive list of what every student should learn in every subject and grade level - students should be learning about Native Americans throughout their days in public school, from kindergarten through high school. (idahoednews.org)
  • And it's true that fourth graders are expected to learn more about Native Americans than at any other point in their K-12 career. (idahoednews.org)
  • But education about Native Americans is supposed to start years before and continue long after those nine and 10-year-olds sit in their fourth grade classrooms. (idahoednews.org)
  • About eight years ago, the Indian Education Committee made recommendations for changes to Idaho's social studies standards to improve the way teachers educate students about Native Americans. (idahoednews.org)
  • For Native American communities, Christopher Columbus symbolizes the beginning of centuries of oppression and is not a figure to revere. (idahoednews.org)
  • D'Lisa Penney, is the principal at Lapwai Middle/High and one of just a few Native American education leaders in Idaho. (idahoednews.org)
  • Some people said more robust standards about Native Americans were important for her school that served primarily Indigenous students. (idahoednews.org)
  • Before European colonialists arrived on the continent, North America belonged to Native Americans whose social, cultural, and political systems have influenced the U.S. in many tangible outlets, from the Constitution to place names to spirituality. (abc-clio.com)
  • Though little time is often devoted to the study of Native Americans in school, appreciating Native American societies and their interactions with others is necessary to the development of a throughout understanding of American history. (abc-clio.com)
  • Featuring articles and essays from Native American authors and contributors, it gives voice to the American Indian experience with respect to colonial conflict, trade economies, decisive wars, parsing of Native American land enabled by American policy, assimilation, and native claims to land, among other topics. (abc-clio.com)
  • a much needed contribution to scholarly research and will complement the access to published material available through the Bibliography of Native North Americans. (abc-clio.com)
  • AIE was designed by an advisory board comprising an impressive group of Native and non-Native specialists ranging from archivists to librarians to professors of American Indian studies. (abc-clio.com)
  • this database will be useful to college and university libraries and to tribal groups and others specializing in Native America studies. (abc-clio.com)
  • AIE will be an excellent addition to any collection of Native American resources. (abc-clio.com)
  • The database was developed under the guidance of past president of the American Library Association Loriene Roy, an Anishinabe Indian from Minnesota, as well as an advisory board of Native American studies scholars and librarians. (abc-clio.com)
  • Over the next decade, some 2.5 million acres of land were removed from tribal control, and 12,000 Native Americans lost their tribal affiliation. (dailydigitalnews.com)
  • The contingent of Native Americans who fear tribal-land privatization cite precedents of lost sovereignty and culture. (dailydigitalnews.com)
  • First Peoples is the definitive text for the Native American history survey course, telling the story with a wealth of documentary evidence from both Native and non-Native perspectives. (macmillanlearning.com)
  • The reason for termination was not just to get rid of the problem that they - the Indian problem but to acquire the lands that, in many cases, were covered with some of the most beautiful stands of virgin forest in the country. (ijpr.org)
  • and (5) combating racism directly in such matters as voting practices, environmental degradation of Indian lands and resources, and bias in the judicial system. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Stossel fails to mention that the federal government has attempted to eliminate us, terminate us, remove us from our lands, cheat and steal from us and then created a paternalistic approach to civilize, and essentially convert and undo the Indian. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • During the last years of the Eisenhower administration a resolution was passed by Congress to "terminate" all Indian reservations and "relocate" Indians off their lands and into the cities. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • Modern Indian law and policy began to come to life in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when a consensus was reached among tribal leaders, young Indian professionals, and traditionalists. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In the 1950s, in the Eisenhower era, a last gasp at assimilation called termination policy aimed to erase the reservation system, Trust responsibilities, and the whole doctrine of Tribal Sovereignty. (josephy.org)
  • The 1934 Indian Reorganization Act resulted in a return to tribal self-government across North America. (potawatomi.org)
  • Indian Removal Act (1830) Despite policies designed to reverse some of the damage by fostering greater self-government and a measure of tribal independence in the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the concept of improvement of the lives of Indians was still framed in terms of "progress" as American citizens, i.e. (jsk.se)
  • The Supreme Court's decision in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is most certainly a blow to Indian sovereignty by way of an assault on core notions of Indian family and tribal identity. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • In addition to ending the tribal rights as sovereign nations, the policy terminated federal support of most of the health care and education programs, utility services, and police and fire departments available to Indians on reservations. (wikipedia.org)
  • 5.4.4: Describe the relationship between the federal government and sovereign American Indian nations, as established under the Constitution of the United States. (okhistory.org)
  • Leonard Peltier (of the Anishinabe, Dakota, and Lakota Nations) traces the roots of his political activism to the rank racism and brutal poverty he experienced every day as an Indian child growing up on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Fort Totten Sioux reservations in North Dakota. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • The resolution established that Congress would pass termination acts on a tribe-by-tribe basis. (wikipedia.org)
  • And he had to assemble a delegation and go up against Congress within a matter of months in order to try and save his tribe from termination, which meant all the land would be lost because that would be all they would have to sell. (ijpr.org)
  • no Indian tribe or nation within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty. (jsk.se)
  • Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Sioux Tribe, delivers a prayer during the rally in front of the United States Supreme Court following oral arguments in the Dollar General Corporation v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians case in 2015. (hcn.org)
  • and, more than anything, Indians can remind us of and teach us about resilience. (josephy.org)
  • It was not through choice that modern Indian people have placed so much reliance on federal law. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The history of social reform in America is inextricably tied to civil disobedience. (resilience.org)
  • Perhaps one of the grossest injustices to American Indian people, is the narrative passed down through generations of students that is myopically focused on the history or historical view of Indigenous peoples. (idahoednews.org)
  • It is probably most useful as an encyclopedia-like starting point for users researching American Indian history and culture. (abc-clio.com)
  • President Donald Trump's pick for Kennedy's replacement, Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh, has little experience with Indian law - something that's in keeping with the court's history. (hcn.org)
  • ERDRICH: Termination was a way to finally resolve the - what Congress thought of as the Indian problem, and that would be to move everyone off reservation land because it wouldn't be reservation land anymore, turn over their land, sell their land, move everyone to cities. (ijpr.org)
  • In a larger sense, the most persistent aspects of federal Indian policy since the mid-nineteenth-century-the assimilation of Indians, reduction of the Indian land and resource base, and the phasing out of tribal governments-had to be stopped and reversed. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Whenever you have laws [EMAC] that are intended for one purpose used for another-and especially to monitor what very well may be First Amendment-protected activities-that always should give the American public pause," said Jennifer Cook, policy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Dakota. (resilience.org)
  • Indian Policy It went out for discussion in units around the country and we got excellent feedback. (jsk.se)
  • After decades of Indian concerns over water, fish, and other natural resources, often in the face of majority opposition (see the "great fish wars" in the Northwest prior to the Boldt Decision), the environmental community is acknowledging Indians and the Indian stance in the natural world rather than over the rest of it. (josephy.org)
  • Francis Paul Prucha writes in The Great Father: the United States Government and the American Indians that throughout the first few decades of the 20th century, the U.S. federal government greatly increased their bureaucratic interference in every aspect of tribal affairs in an attempt to conform them to their idea of effective social and economic models. (potawatomi.org)
  • Stossel would have much better luck arguing against universal healthcare from the indigenous perspective, considering that if you were an Indian woman, until about two decades ago, universal healthcare meant coerced sterilization. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • With more access to free legal services, along with newly acquired wealth from Indian gaming, tribal governments were able to challenge corporations and the state when treaty rights were threatened. (hcn.org)
  • These superficially unrelated stirrings were tightly and irrevocably bound together by an indelible reverence for the aboriginal past, an appreciation of the consequences of five centuries of contact with Europeans, and by desperation concerning the future of Indian societies as discrete units within the larger society. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The modern era of Indian law began in the late 1960s with a series of decisions that expanded the purview of tribal law. (hcn.org)
  • Those favorable decisions came about in part because Indigenous people finally received fair legal representation in court, a change that reflected the broader social and political movements for equality in America during that time. (hcn.org)
  • You could actually stand up and fight for them… and as I would come to see in later years, all Indian people, all Indigenous People, all human beings of good heart. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973). (jsk.se)
  • BOTTOM LINE Strongly recommended for school and public libraries, as well as for academic libraries serving American Indian studies and ethnic studies researchers. (abc-clio.com)
  • The decision should serve as a warning to all marginalized groups such as Indians, ethnic minorities, the lower class, or the LGBT community: If given the opportunity the High Court will construe legislation to serve its own institutionalized interests, in spite of the law's intent. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • As an accompaniment-Indians were to join the main stream in America-thousands of young Indians were loaded on buses and moved to urban outposts across the country. (josephy.org)
  • A major cause of these impediments is the jurisdictional tangle that exists in Indian Country. (truthout.org)
  • Between infrastructure spending, urban development grants, and job-creating federal contracts, I'm guessing most parts of the country get much more government aid than Indian country does. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Now that Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, Indian Country is again asking what a new justice could mean for tribal interests. (hcn.org)
  • Now, with the recent addition of Justice Neil Gorsuch, who is fluent in Indian law, and the departure of Kennedy, who actively voted against tribal interests , it remains to be seen how a new combination of justices will affect Indian Country. (hcn.org)
  • The justices are primarily from the coasts, almost entirely with East Coast educations and with little experience with Indian Country. (hcn.org)
  • After Fort Lawton, Peltier traveled the country where, in Colorado, he joined the American Indian Movement (AIM) . (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • The staff at Indian Country and Suzette Brewer really deserve to be commended for their coverage of these cases. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • Thank you Indian Country for your commitment to journalism, which unfortunately is apparently rare these days. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • Allan said American Indians share a unique relationship with the U.S. government through what he called the "Federal Trust Responsibility. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Comment: Forget about the fact that Indians receive government services as payment for their land. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • That Indians receive less government healthcare funding than federal prisoners is a well-known statistic. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • To sum it up, the US government has cost Indians money in countless ways. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • But his first real experience with confronting the might of the U.S. government was the 1970 peaceful takeover of abandoned Fort Lawton, outside Seattle, Washington, which was on "surplus" federal land to which the Indians had first right under the law. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • Indian women face considerable barriers to accessing justice . (truthout.org)
  • Justice Stephen Breyer has made efforts to visit and understand tribal courts, and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch have a thorough understanding of Indian law - in Sotomayor's case, because she made a concerted effort to learn. (hcn.org)
  • Outside forces were bent on obtaining Indian land, water, fish, and tax revenues, and on assimilating the culture of Indian people, especially the children. (encyclopedia.com)
  • After water contamination in Flint, Michigan, Portland, Oregon and dozens of other places, we-majority culture environmentalists-see that clean water is precious and fundamental in North Dakota and everywhere. (josephy.org)
  • And I knew that he had fought termination during that time, but I never put together his letters and the details of what it was like for him to work as a night watchman. (ijpr.org)
  • Generation after generation, tribal elders passed down information about the talks at treaty time and about the fact that American law, at least in Marshall's time, had been faithful to those talks. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Today, Fort Lawton is an Indian cultural center. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • Additional Health Support Information: Emotional, cultural, and professional support services are also available to Survivors and their families through the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • However, another period of anti-tribalism followed in the 1940s-60s, known as the Termination Era, when the United States reversed self-governance policies. (potawatomi.org)
  • Allan accused FOX anchor John Stossel of insensitive on-air comments made about American Indians. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • AIM was born out of [the] turmoil [of "termination"]… The attempt to destroy us had only made us stronger, more aware, more dedicated. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • 5.1.8 Explain how American Indian agricultural practices, such as the Three Sisters, contributed to the early survival of the colonists. (okhistory.org)
  • The Indians had notified the Nixon Administration of their plans which included the presentation of a 20-point proposal for improving U.S.-Indian relations. (whoisleonardpeltier.info)
  • Stealing the Indians' land and natural resources, forcing their children into boarding schools, giving them substandard food and medical care, losing instead of paying their trust funds, etc. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • For more on the subject, see Trahant Agrees About Termination Agenda , Fox Special on Indian "Freeloaders," and Stossel: Indians Are Biggest Moochers . (bluecorncomics.com)
  • It was surprising to many, then, to watch a video of militarized police flanked by armored vehicles bear down on the protesters resisting the controversial $3.7 billion Dakota Access pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota in October. (resilience.org)
  • And now they are still in urban areas, at colleges and universities on reservations and off, and have trained their own as lawyers and battled in courts over land, water, and sovereignty. (josephy.org)
  • In every instance they have fought and … Sara M. Patterson Wallace, The Long Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians (New York: Hill & Wang, 1993). (jsk.se)
  • In two-plus centuries of dealing with the US, Indians arguably have received less than anyone else, not more. (bluecorncomics.com)