The Fort Laramie treaty exhibited encouraged more people to settle in the Native land, disrupting hunting grounds, competing for the same resources, the newcomers made it hard for the treaty to work. […]
William Paterson was deeply concerned about the status of the smaller states. He did not want their congressional position to be weakened using the logic of numbers and cutting their vote. […]
The Medicine Lodge Treaty was doomed to fail. All the natives did not agree with relinquishing their lands. And, a conflict was inevitable. […]
The years leading up to the American Civil War and the war itself brought only destruction to the Natives. Hundreds of lives were destroyed and homelands were snatched away. […]
In its expansion process in the years leading to the American Civil War, the U.S. government left little for the Native communities. Thus, many joined the forces in the hope of protecting their rights and sovereignty, while some resisted. […]
The decades leading up to the American Civil War were defined by competing visions of expansion. And this had major effects on the lives of the Natives. […]
Edmund Randolph disapproved strongly the way the states behaved as independent powers. He sought to strengthen the Confederation and make it effectual as the center of power. […]
At the Virginia Convention, the battle lines were drawn with each state still vying for equal power and the task of turning the confederation into a strong seat of power seemed herculean. […]
William Pierce’s character sketches of the Virginia Convention delegates offer a vignette into their personality, noting their quirks and whimsical nature. […]
Like other Natives, the Apache too bore the brunt of structural and systematic destruction of Native societies undertaken by the State of California. […]
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