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The Trail of Broken Treaties (also known as the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan [1] and the Pan American Native Quest for Justice [2]) was a 1972 cross-country caravan of American Indian and First Nations organizations that started on the West Coast of the United States and ended at the Department of Interior headquarters building at the US capital of Washington, D.C. Participants called for ...
List of documents relating to the negotiation of ratified and unratified treaties with various Indian Tribes, 1801–1869 (1949) from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections; Native American Treaties and Information from UCB Libraries GovPubs; List of Treaties between the U.S. and Foreign Nations 1778–1845 from the Library of Congress
Treaty of Fond du Lac; Fort Bridger Treaty Council of 1868; Treaty of Fort Clark; Fort Finney (Ohio) Treaty of Fort Industry; Treaty of Fort Jackson; Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) Fort Martin Scott Treaty; Treaty of Fort Meigs; Treaty of Fort Pitt; Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) Treaty of Fort Wayne (1803) Treaty of ...
On November 3, a group of around 500 American Indians with the American Indian Movement (AIM) took over the Interior building in Washington, D.C. [1] It being the culmination of their cross-country journey in the Trail of Broken Treaties, intended to bring attention to American Indian issues such as living standards and treaty rights.
Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20894-3. Prucha, Francis Paul, ed. Documents of United States Indian Policy (3rd ed. 2000) Prucha, Francis Paul. American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly (1997) excerpt and text search; Prucha ...
The United States, following the Treaty of San Lorenzo, laid claim to Choctaw country starting in 1795. By the early 19th century pressure from U.S. southern states, like Georgia, encouraged the procurement of Native American lands. The Treaty of Fort Adams was the first in a series of treaties that ceded Choctaw lands.
Indian Land Cessions in the United States is a widely used [1] atlas and chronology compiled by Charles C. Royce of Native American treaties with the U.S. government until 1896–97. Royce's maps are considered "the foundation of cartographic testimony in Indian land claims litigation."
The treaty was broken almost immediately after its inception. [15] In 1858, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, a mass immigration of miners and settlers into Colorado occurred. White settlers took over the treaty's established territories in order to mine them, "against the protests of the Indians."