Illuminating the Treaties That Have Governed U.S. - Indian Relationships

In 1794, President Washington commissioned a wampum belt for the Canadaigua Treaty.
Image Courtesy of Cliff Owen/AP Images and Smithsonian.com.

September 2014.

Smithsonian has written a brief new article summarizing some of the treaties between Native Nations and the United States.

"The so-called Calico Treaty, one of the earliest the U.S. entered into, is still in force: Every July, the Bureau of Indian Affairs dispatches what amounts to a square yard of cloth per tribal citizen to the tribes (except the Mohawks, because the U.S. has come to believe that no Mohawk leaders were present at the treaty’s signing)."

-Smithsonian.

To read the full article, click here.

For more information about treaties,

Visit:

• University of Nebraska Lincoln
• American Indian Treaties Portal
• Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations
• Oklahoma State University
• Indian Claims Commission Decisions
• Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler
• Oklahoma Historical Society
• American Indian Archive

• Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties, compiled & edited by Charles J. Kappler
• August 19, 2014
• Indian Claims Commission Decisions
• June 10, 2014