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 ...

Derek Kilmer has introduced a bill to Congress that would transfer 72 acres of Olympic Peninsula land back to the Quinault Indian Nation. The Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act, introduced ...

The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation confirm they are still pressing ahead with plans to build the Tri ... land. The approval process hasn’t moved ahead as planned. The Bureau of ...

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 ...