with the Indian ... tribes to reservations, which it followed, beginning in 1887, with a policy of assimilation. In 1924, Congress granted citizen-ship to all Indians born in the United States ...

Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States ... "Indian Removal Act" through both houses of Congress. It gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian ...

Thomas McKenney, United States superintendent of Indian trade in Georgetown ... King painted from life Indian leaders of at least twenty tribes. These portraits were later handsomely reproduced as ...