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That’s a mouthful to say. Basically between 1778 and 1871 the US government signed over 535 treaties with Indigenous nations and tribes – and broke every single one of them.

As preliminary work into a new project I’m doing I’m mapping these treaties. Data is from the Tribal Treaties Database from Oklahoma State University, they have all 535 treaties digitized.

This chart adds up to ~870 and this is because treaties sometimes included more than one nation, hence the complicated title.

Basically it reads like this: “X nation signed Y treaties with the US government.”

Edit: a much simpler title is number of treaties signed with US government, per native tribe