This inquiry resource provides evidence to help teachers and students dispel the myth of the “First Thanksgiving.”

This document signed in 1818 serves as a reminder of the unfairness of the federal government's approach to negotiating with Native communities.

In this four-part professional development series, educators will explore how to teach about treaties and their relevance today.

Treaties define the sovereign relationship between the United States and American Indian Nations.

This treaty was negotiated 11 months after the Sand Creek Massacre that took place on November 29, 1864, a day that will live in infamy in the lives of modern Cheyenne and Arapaho people.

A series of events led to the Wounded Knee occupation, one of the most significant being the Trail of Broken Treaties.

Award-winning journalist Rebecca Nagle (Citizen of the Cherokee Nation) explains that tribal sovereignty is the inherent authority of Indigenous tribes to govern themselves.

In part one of this webinar, participants learned about different aspects of sovereignty, including non-political components such as cultural autonomy.

In part two of this webinar, participants heard from museum education staff about ways to teach tribal sovereignty to their students.

This webinar focused on three vastly divergent federal Indian policies and their positive and negative impacts on Native nations historically and today.

This webinar examined why an understanding of the history of U.S. federal Indian policy is critical to understanding the relationship between Native nations and the United States today.

This webinar considered how U.S. federal Indian policies impact people and communities on a personal level.

This video introduces the goals of the sovereign rights movement.

While many treaty promises remain unfulfilled, the principle of sovereignty makes treaties vital to Indian life today.

For Indian nations, U.S. government policies that undermined tribal sovereignty resulted in broken treaties, vast land loss, removal and relocation, population decline, and cultural decimation.