Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma ...

The United States government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation in an 1829 ...

In 1887, the Dawes act attempted to integrate tribes into white society. In 1887, the Dawes act (also known as the Allotment Act) was passed, which was an attempt to integrate Native Tribes into ...

Four dams are now down on the Upper Klamath River in northern California in the largest river restoration project in U.S. history ... with the 1887 passage of the Dawes Act during the ...

Sarah Burris is a long-time veteran of political campaigns, having worked as a fundraiser and media director across the United States. She transitioned into reporting while working for Rock the ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe declared in an internal memo that China is the top priority for his agency, warning that "no adversary in the history ... that give the United States the advantage ...

Irwin is the author of multiple books, including “Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy.” We talked last year, when he gave me a crash course in US tariff history that bore ...

President John Adams signed the Alien Enemies Act in July 1798 as the United States came to the brink ... Christopher Capozzola, a history professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Let us understand what the Alien Enemies Act is and its historical use in the US history. What is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798? Alien Enemies Act: It is a United States federal law passed in 1798 ...

📅 Today in History: In 1887, the Dawes Severalty Act gave the president the authority to divide Native American reservations into privately owned plots, leading to tribes losing 62% of their holdings ...

Months later, in June 1930, US President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Act into law. The law was originally aimed at imposing tariffs to protect US farmers from foreign competition ...

Now they threaten to take that away from us. My brothers, shall we submit or shall we say ... The modern issue of Native land rights stems from The Dawes Act of 1887. This act was intended to amend ...