Do you use treaties when teaching American Indian history? They can be an extremely important starting point for teaching the history of a tribe or tribes from a particular area of the United States: go.usa.gov/s5n9 These historic documents mark the beginning of a tribe’s transition from Sovereign Nation, with it’s own independent government and land base, to a “domestic, dependent, Nation” (Supreme Court 1831). Many treaties (including transcriptions) and teaching activities are available on our special DocsTeach page: docsteach.org/home/native-americans We recently loaned several treaties from the holdings of the US National Archives to the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian for their Nation to Nation Exhibit. (Images: Treaty between the United States Government and the Sauk and Fox Indians on November 11, 1804, (Ratified Indian Treaty #43, 7 STAT 84), from the General Records of the U.S. Government, National Archives Identifier 7891103, available at docsteach.org/documents/7891103/detail Sinte Galeska, ca. 1880, also known as Spotted Tail, a chief of the Bruleton, band of the Oglala Sioux, was one of the signers of the Fort Laramie Treaty. Photograph of Spotted Tail, ca. 1880, from the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Archives Identifier 285689, available at docsteach.org/documents/285689/detail)
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:06:15 +0000
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