The Washington State History Museum in Tacoma includes exhibits on Native Americans and their lives after first contact.
Land sales were just one of many shameful practices which robbed tribes of their lands, stripped them of rights, introduced disease, and attempted to destroy their cultures.
This exhibit explained how 40% of the 18,000 acre Puyallup reservation was sold in violation of an 1855 treaty. Lands were often auctioned without the consent or knowledge of parcel owners and advertised far from the event. Locally, few knew of it.
It is a lot different from Hollywood’s version of history.
Great top photo. Our government is still “at war” with many Indian tribes and shamefully neglect any decent reparations for past crimes against them. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is not doing a much better job in today’s world either. My husband had some interesting Indian land cases re land ownership in Minnesota and even went to the US Supreme Court in one of them.
A museum I would enjoy visiting. The first shot really stands out.
When you look at our previous prime minister, who said the disappearances and deaths of First Nations women weren’t “on our radar”, it speaks volumes of the work yet to be done.
First Nations people were robbed here in Canada too. Some of them are working with the Province of Ontario to get some of the land back…and I think that’s a very good thing!
A sad time in our history – it is good that the truth is coming out.
The things people do to other people in the name of “civilization”. And we’re not so far from those times again…