To the editor: The Native veterans who missed the application date for the Native Allotments are going to be disrespected by the Dingell Act process. I wouldn’t want to be the one who tells the ...

Apr. 7—Dr. Candessa Tehee, associate professor of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies and Cherokee Nation District 2 Tribal councilor, contributed to an edited volume about her family's allotment story, ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Spring 2024 magazine. You can subscribe here. For most of U.S. history, Native Americans weren’t second-class citizens. In fact, they weren’t even ...

The discourse of blood in the assimilation period -- Fraud : the allotment of the Anishinaabeg -- Chaos : the Dawes Commission and the Five Tribes -- Practically white : the federal policy of ...

He made Sitting Bull stand. Henry Dawes was described by many as a "tireless friend of the Indian." That meant little to the great Indian chief Sitting Bull, who during a meeting with then-Sen. Dawes ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Eight surviving American Indians who were among the original signers of the Dawes Roll were honored Monday at the Capitol by state and tribal leaders. The group received gifts and ...