Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory. Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he ...
In April 1868 a delegation of Navajo leaders traveled ... proposed that the Navajo Nation should move to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) instead. The Navajo leader Barboncito replied ...
In the Treaty of 1868, the U.S. government promised the Sioux territory that included the ... The history of Wounded Knee would spur American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) activists to occupy the ...