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The Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole—participated in in the 1830s–1860s, adopting and adapting chattel slavery practices alongside preexisting for...
, ’s Secretary of War, was in 1876 over a long-running trader-post kickback scheme but resigned minutes before the House vote; nevertheless tried him, found a majority voting “guilty” on the articles ...
Indigenous peoples across the American West both adopted and reshaped cattle herding from the 18th century onward, ranging from early Spanish-era vaquero instruction in the Southwest to large twentiet...
Albert Pike served as the Confederate commissioner to several Native American nations and was commissioned a brigadier general who led Indian Territory forces early in the Civil War; his command fough...
in 1876 first resolved a threshold jurisdictional fight, deciding it could try despite his resignation by a 37–29 vote, then conducted a full trial with more than forty witnesses before concluding on ...