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English. The Treaty of Big Tree was a formal treaty signed in 1797 between the Seneca Nation and the United States, in which the Seneca relinquished their rights to nearly all of their traditional homeland in New York State —nearly 3.5 million acres. [1] In the 1788 Phelps and Gorham Purchase, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) had previously sold ...
The 1838 Mormon War, also known as the Missouri Mormon War, was a conflict between Mormons and their neighbors in Missouri. It was preceded by tensions and episodes of vigilante violence dating back to the initial Mormon settlement in Jackson County in 1831. State troops became involved after the Battle of Crooked River, leading Governor ...
Minnesota Territory was organized from the region that had been operating as de facto Wisconsin Territory, and unorganized territory east of the Missouri and White Earth Rivers. [193] [170] March 12, 1849 A local government formed the State of Deseret and claimed a vast portion of the southwest, including most of the Mexican Cession.
Satanta or "White Bear" The trial of Satanta and Big Tree occurred in May 1871 in the town of Jacksboro in Jack County, Texas, United States.This historic trial of Native American war chiefs of the Kiowa Indians Satanta and Big Tree for the murder of seven teamsters during a raid on Salt Creek Prairie near Jacksboro, Texas, marked the first time the United States had tried Native American ...
The indicatrices demonstrate the difference between the 3D world as seen from space and 2D projections of its surface. The map–territory relation is the relationship between an object and a representation of that object, as in the relation between a geographical territory and a map of it. Mistaking the map for the territory is a logical ...
The Territory of Missouri was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 4, 1812, [1] until August 10, 1821. In 1819, the Territory of Arkansas was created from a portion of its southern area. In 1821, a southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Missouri, and the rest ...
The Honey War was a bloodless territorial dispute in 1839 between Iowa Territory and Missouri over their border.. The dispute over a 9.5-mile-wide (15.3 km) strip running the entire length of the border, caused by unclear wording in the Missouri Constitution on boundaries, misunderstandings over the survey of the Louisiana Purchase, and a misreading of Native American treaties, was ultimately ...
The Big Tree. Coordinates: 38°53′57.52″N 92°27′52.57″W. The Big Tree in spring 2016. The Big Tree is a nearly 400-year-old bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) tree near the Missouri River in Boone County, Missouri. It is tied for National Champion, representing the largest tree of its species in the United States.