After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

They signed a treaty in March, 1832 ... By 1837, the Jackson administration had removed 46,000 Native American people from their land east of the Mississippi, and had secured treaties which ...

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But ...

Thomas Lewis was the lesser-known brother of Andrew Lewis. Both brothers negotiated a short-lived treaty with the Lenape ...

Was it inevitable that European Americans would seize Native Americans' land? The U.S. Government began to make treaties with the Plains Indians during the 1850s to 1871 when a Congressional act ...