Then, following defeat in the French and Indian War (1754–1763), France ceded the territory to Great Britain in the 1763 Treaty of Paris. They created the Province of Quebec.

Federal treaties signed in the 1850s guarantee Northwest tribes the right to fish and hunt in their traditional territories in exchange for giving up most of their land. “It's in case law.

OLYMPIA — It took just a little more than a year, but by the time it was over, tribes in 11 treaty councils all over the Northwest had ceded their lands forever to the United States, lands from ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, is displaying the Treaty with the Western Cherokee, 1828, in “Nation to ...

They based this on United States policy; in former treaties, ... This time they based their appeal on an 1830 Georgia law which prohibited whites from living on Indian territory after March 31, ...

In the years following independence, the newly-formed United States of America look westward for their expansion, hoping to conquer territory and sell off land to eager European settlers. Its ...

Federal treaties signed in the 1850s guarantee Northwest tribes the right to fish and hunt in their traditional territories in exchange for giving up most of their land. “It’s in case law.

Native people in the region want four large dams removed from the Snake River in Washington state in order to protect the salmon, whose numbers are dwindling.

A draft treaty decades in the making has been signed by the Kitselas First Nation in B.C.’s northwest, moving the nation away from the “repressive and outdated Indian Act,” its chief said ...

Then, after the United States defeated the British (with French help) during the Revolutionary War, the British ceded the territory to the Americans in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.

TERRACE — A draft treaty decades in the making has been signed by a First Nation in British Columbia's northwest, moving the nation away from the "repressive and outdated Indian Act," its chief ...