Between 1863 to 1866, in an event that became known ... Morigi/AP Images for the National Museum of the American Indian Alongside the treaty, the museum has installed a Navajo loom and weaving ...

The Indian Removal ... 1790–1866), appearing before the U.S. Senate in 1836 to argue on behalf of the Cherokee Council against ratification of the Treaty of New Echota, ceding Cherokee lands ...

In addition, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs sent a letter. “Honor the treaty,” urged Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk, or else an election held without the freedmen would ...

According to the filing, excluding them from membership would violate an 1866 treaty signed by the tribe with the U.S.