These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of progress. Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal ...

Benson case was one of three land claim lawsuits ... person's race by the color of their skin. We never looked white, most of us. For quite a few years it stated, 'If you are Indian or white ...

HELENA – The Flathead Reservation is among 21 Indian reservations that will be the focus of the next phase of a $1.9 billion program to buy fractionated land parcels owned by multiple ...