which ordered the relocation of eastern Native Americans to land west of the Mississippi, was premised on the white supremacist notion that American Indians were “savages,” incapable of making ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - Rapid growth and development in Berkeley County is causing concern for a Native American tribe as they lose access to sacred land. A treaty signed Wednesday by 10 ...

But without a land base, they could not be recognized. In 1983 the Timbisha became recognized as “non-ward Indians,” a tribe ... is the first Native American in that role.

If history had taken a different turn, the place now known as Oklahoma could have seen an even stronger win for Native American ... Indians involved wanted it. (In practice, this was used to free ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - Rapid growth and development is causing concern for a Native American tribe as they lose access to sacred land ... Tribe of Varnertown Indians chief said the ...

The act broke up tribal territory into individually owned 80-to-160-acre parcels at the behest of land-hungry settlers, and for the purposes of so-called “detribalization.” To “civilize” them via ...

A federal appeals court in Atlanta will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a long-running legal dispute between a pair of Native American tribes ... Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Auburn University ...

“We’re losing our sacred sites and things that connect us to our history,” Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians Chief Lisa Collins said. Collins said fences often go up along with private ownership ...