o cost not less than $2,500

To participate in the Sun Dance, men would volunteer to have sticks inserted into their skin and be attached to a twenty-foot pole.

But should the United States abandon said post and have no further use for the same it shall revert to the Cherokee nation.

“I think that was the first test of the sovereign issues, with the cigarettes, and then it moved on from there.” [26]

I ask, that once made a citizen, someone could be unmade?

paying any tax thereon which is now or may be levied by the United States on the quantity sold outside of the Indian Territ

Now Cherokee fought Cherokee. The war reduced their numbers from 22,000 to 15,000, more than a quarter o

They will make no opposition to the military posts or roads .roads. · now established, or that may be established, not in violation of treaties heretofore made or hereafter to be made with any of the Indian tribe

As a result of all of this criticism

his relationship isn’t violent, heis violent

The United States, alas, has never been a nation in which Indians could expect to be treated equally under the law, nor allowed the freedom to live and worship as they pleased, let alon

Yet many Indian people are virtually imprisoned in the nation's courtrooms in being forced constantly to defend their rights, while many tribes are forced to maintain a multitude of suits in numerous jurisdictions relating to the same or a

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Nixon argued that the US needed to do away with federal paternalism and stop termination—removing the threat of termination would be the “only way that self-determination can effectively be fostered.”  

he said tribes and bands of Indians hereby cede, relinquish, and convey to the United States, all their right, title, and interest in and to the lands and country occupied by them

The majority of these objects were collected during the time period when Native people were supposed to “vanish” from the American landscape—thus, collectors and anthropologists viewed their efforts as a race against time, the need to collect the so-called last vestiges of a dying race. If they didn’t collect these pieces, no one would ever know they had existed. The term we use to describe this thought process and how it shaped collection is “salvage anthropology.”

we have to deal with the reluc-tance of people to understand how colonialism is gendered and also sexualized.

The core of Oklahoma’s argument is that a reservation must be land “reserved from sale.

Tuske-hew-haw-Cusetaw two hundred dollars.To the Blind Uchu King one hundred dollars.To Neah Mico one hundred dollar

Sexual violence impinges on our spiritual selves, creating emotional wounds that fester and infect larger wells of community trauma.” [18]“It is impossible to have a truly self-determining nation when its members have been denied self-determination over their own bodies.” [19]

There is a significant disparity in the number of prosecutions compared with the number of Native women experiencing rape. Tribal leaders and others have voiced their concerns about the federal government’s low rates of prosecuting rape and other violent crimes. There are also enormous practical problems with this system. The length of time between an assault and the sentencing, assuming a conviction is achieved, can be significant. Federal prosecutors are often very selective about the cases they pursue, leaving victims without recourse. The decision to prosecute is often hidden from public scrutiny, which has the tendency to make many victims feel abandoned. Indeed, most rapes in the United States are never reported to law enforcement.

Worcester was a victory for the Cherokees, and explicitly stated that states did not have jurisdiction in Indian country, this ruling did not accurately reflect the reality throughout most of the nineteenth century.Legal scholar Sidney Harring writes that during this time, “federal Indian law evolved in a legal batt

“domestic de-pendent nations” rather than “foreign nations” and therefore had no right to a judicial hearing

Whether Marshall was a “racist,” as defi ned by our own more highly refi ned, twenty- fi rst- century, post- Brown contemporary racial sensibili-ties, or whether he really

n a 2005 decision,

If any citizen of the United States, or person under their protection, shall commit arobbery or murder or other capital crime, on any Indian, such offender or offenders shall bepunished in the same manner as if the murder or robbery or other capital crime, had beencommitted on a citizen of the United States; and the punishment shall be in presence ofsome of the Cherokees, if any shall attend at the time and place, and that they may havean opportunity so to do, due notice of the time of such intended punishment shall be sentto some one of the tribes

such personshall forfeit the protection of the United States, and the Indians may punish him or not asthey please-provided nevertheless

beginning at the mouth of Duck river onthe Tenessee; thence running north-east, to the ridge dividing the waters running intoCumberland from those running into the Tenessee; thence eastwardly along the said ridgeto a north-east line to be run, which shall strike the river Cumberland forty miles aboveNashville; thence along the said line to the river; thence up the said river to the ford wherethe Kentucky road crosses the river, thence to Campbells line, near Cumberland gap;thence to the mouth of Clauds creek on Holstein; thence to the Chimmey Top mountain;thence to Camp creek, near the mouth of Big Limestone, on Nolichuckey; thence asoutherly course six miles to a mountain; thence south to the North-Carolina; thenceto the South-Carolina Indian boundary, and along the same south-west over the top ofthe Oconee mountain till it shall strike Tugalo river; thence a direct line to the top of theCurrohee mountain; thence to the head of the South fork of Oconee river

people were warlike, and too uncivilized to be recognized under the US Constitution as a foreign state

With that note, the swindler could get a court order foreclosing on Native property—then accompanied by the sheriff, the white settler could come and take the listed goods and the victim would have no recourse

the idea that Natives were “naturally” removed from their homelands because they “followed” their game into the forests is just so completely wrong! It is historical fiction

THE STATE OF SEQUOYAHland to individual tribal citizens, who became U.S. citizens, with dual tribal citizenshipbeing phased out upon the termination of the tribal government on or before the March 4,1906 deadline. Under these agreements, once the conveyance of allotment deeds fromthe tribe was finalized, it was presumed the tribal governments would have no furtherbusiness to attend.28As the March 4 deadline approached, most tribal leaders viewed the Sequoyahmovement as the only viable option for th

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From time immemorial, the Indians as a heritage of the original inhabitants have been promised a state, an empire of their own…they had taken on the dress, the customs, and the religion of the white man and they welcome him as a brother.” Now, “the national government must grant us separate statehood or make a confession

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The Cherokees refused to ratify because they feared how it would be interpreted by the US Congress.

At first the Choctaws and Chickasaws chose not to show, but when they were informed that they would be subjected to the authority of the new government whether they attended or not, they decided to attend.

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1763, a pan-Native armed resistance movement attacked thirteen British posts that stood north of the Ohio and the Potomac and west of the Susquehanna rivers