Land Debate – For Students
The following Internet sites provide information concerning land rights and treaties:
PBS: Archives of the West
Variety of documents including the Dawes Act and the Homestead Act, which address land ownership issues; as well as, eye-witness accounts of how Native Americans have been treated in the past.
A few suggested documents available on this site:
- Andrew Jackson on the Necessity of Indian Removal, 1835
- Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868
- Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre, 1864 – 1865
- Homestead Act, 1862
- The Buffalo Harvest, 1870s
- Chief Joseph Speaks, 1887 – 1889
- Indian Policy Reform from President Chester Arthur, 1881
- Dawes Act, 1887
- Selections from With the Nez Perces by Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889 – 1890
- General Nelson A. Miles on the "Sioux Outbreak" of 1890
Oklahoma State University Library
Treaty with the Sauk and Foxes, 1804.
Institute of American Indian Studies,
University of South Dakota
Treaty with the Yankton Sioux, 1858.
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Fort Laramie Treaty.
National Archives, Archives Library Information Center, Indians/Native Americans
Variety of documents on current status of Native American land rights.
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