Broken US-Indigenous treaties: A timeline
As long as the United States has negotiated treaties with Indigenous nations, it has broken those treaties. There is a popular tendency to think of these treaties as inanimate artifacts of the distant past. This belief, however, is a symptom of the historical amnesia that continues to relegate present-day Indigenous rights issues to the margins.
Treaties are, in fact, living documents, which even today legally bind the United States to the promises it made to Native peoples centuries ago. Treaties also acknowledge the inherent sovereignty of Indigenous nations, a fact that has been disputed and undermined in U.S. courts and Congress since 1831, when the Supreme Court ruled that tribes were “domestic dependent nations” without self-determination.
Of the nearly 370 treaties negotiated between the U.S. and tribal leaders, Stacker has compiled a list of 15 broken treaties negotiated between 1777 and 1868 using news, archival documents, and Indigenous and governmental historical reports.
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