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35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

Trista June 6, 2019 16 min

Plimoth Patuxet Museums - Thanksgiving — Jennie A. Brownscombe's "The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" from 1914. Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

15. The United States Negated its Treaties with the Tribes

Four generations of Sitting Bull in 1882 at Ft Randall (rear L-R Good Feather Woman (sister), Walks Looking (daughter) front L-R Her Holy Door (mother), Sitting Bull, Many Horses (daughter) with her son, Courting a Woman). Von Burn / “Copy from Mrs. Edward M. Johnson collection Spiritwood, N. Dak / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

By this point, the United States government had pretty well established the fact that it was bound to renege on the treaties that it had signed with the Native Americans. In 1871, the government completely ended the system of engaging in agreements with the tribes. Instead of using treaties as an excuse for taking the natives’ land, it began taking it outright. It established laws that blatantly took it away.

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15. The United States Negated its Treaties with the Tribes

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