By Francis Paul Prucha
The 3rd version of this landmark paintings provides 40 new records, which hide the numerous advancements in American Indian affairs on the grounds that 1988. one of the issues handled are tribal self-governance, government-to-government relatives, religious rights, repatriation of human is still, belief administration, wellbeing and fitness and schooling, federal attractiveness of tribes, presidential rules, and Alaska Natives.
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16. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the military force of the United States to apprehend every person who shall, or may be found in the Indian country over and beyond the said boundary line between the United States and the said Indian tribes, in violation of any of the provisions or regulations of this act, and him or them immediately to convey, in the nearest, convenient and safe route, to the civil au20 Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be clearly ascertained and distinctly marked, in all such places as he shall deem necessary, and in such manner as he shall direct, any other boundary lines between the United States and any Indian tribe, which now are, or hereafter may be established by treaty.
There are three great channels of communication, by which traders may introduce their Goods into the Mississippi and Missouri Country from the British dominions. One is by the way of Chickago and down the Illinois; Another by the way of Green Bay up the Fox River and down the Ouisconsin. This has been the great thoroughfare along which goods have been taken. [Clarence E. ] 24. Secretary of War Crawford on Trade and Intercourse March 13, 1816 In reply to a Senate resolution, Secretary of War William H.
Art. 3. The undersigned chiefs and warriors, for themselves and their said tribe, do hereby acknowledge themselves and their tribe to be under the protection of the United States, and of no other power, nation, or sovereign, whatsoever. . [Charles J. ] A treaty of peace and friendship, made and concluded at Portage des Sioux, between William Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of the said States, of the one part; and the Chiefs and Warriors of the Siouxs of the river St.