The Arapaho delegates were part of a large group of Native representatives who signed the treaty on May 25, 1868. Paul Morigi/AP Images for Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian In ...

National Museum of the American Indian ... By 1846 most of the Native Nations that signed the Treaty of Fort Wayne had been removed west of the Mississippi. The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi ...

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 ...

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

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

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

In the Treaty of 1868, the U.S. government promised ... of many whites when he said he favored a humane course to bring Native Americans "under the benign influences of education and civilization.