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List of United States treaties

List of United States treaties

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This is a list of treaties to which the United States has been a party or which have had direct relevance to U.S. history.

Pre-Revolutionary War treaties

Before the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the sovereign of the United Kingdom and the leaders of various North American colonies negotiated treaties that affected the territory of what would later become the United States.

U.S. international treaties

These are treaties that the United States has made with other sovereign international states. This is mostly to distinguish them from the next category. Under the treaty clause of the United States Constitution, treaties come into effect upon final ratification by the President of the United States, provided that a two–thirds majority of the United States Senate concurs.[5]

1776–1799

1800–1849

1850–1899

1900–1949

1950–1999

2000–current

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U.S.–Native American treaties

From 1778 to 1871, the United States government entered into more than 500 treaties with the Native American tribes;[24] all of these treaties have since been violated in some way or outright broken by the U.S. government,[25][26][27][28] with Native Americans and First Nations peoples still fighting for their treaty rights in federal courts and at the United Nations.[26][29]

In addition to treaties, which are ratified by the U.S. Senate and signed by the U.S. President, there were also Acts of Congress and Executive Orders which dealt with land agreements. The U.S. military and representatives of a tribe, or sub unit of a tribe, signed documents which were understood at the time to be treaties, rather than armistices, ceasefires and truces.

The entries from 1784 to 1895 were initially created by information gathered by Charles C. Royce[30] and published in the U.S. Serial Set,[31] Number 4015, 56th Congress, 1st Session, in 1899. The purpose of the Schedule of Indian Land Cessions was to indicate the location of each cession by or reservation for the Indian Tribes. Royce's column headings are titled: "Date, Where or how concluded, Reference, Tribe, Description of cession or reservation, historical data and remarks, Designation of cession on map, Number, Location".[32]

The Ratified Indian Treaties that were transferred from the U.S. State Department to the National Archives were recently conserved and imaged for the first time, and in 2020 made available online with additional context at the Indigenous Digital Archive's Treaties Explorer, or DigiTreaties.org.[33][34]

1778–1799

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1800–1809

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1810–1819

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1820–1829

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1830–1839

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1840–1849

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1850–1859

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1860–1869

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1870–1879

Treaty-making between various Native American governments and the United States officially concluded on March 3, 1871 with the passing of the United States Code Title 25, Chapter 3, Subchapter 1, Section 71 (25 U.S.C. § 71). Pre-existing treaties were grandfathered, and further agreements were made under domestic law.

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1880–present

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Notes and references

  1. "Treaty Between the English and the Powhatan Indians, October 1646". Archived from the original on October 4, 2015. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  2. Brought about by Bacon's Rebellion
  3. , From the Original Roll In the Secretary of State's Office, Albany, N.Y.
  4. However, not all international agreements are considered to be treaties requiring Senate concurrence. This is explained somewhat in a letter from U.S. Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard to Philippine Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago in connection with the RP-US Vishe other countries, derives from the President's responsibilities for the conduct of foreign relations (Art. II, Sec. 1) and his constitutional powers as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. Senate advice and consent is not needed, inter alia, because the VFA and similar agreements neither change US domestic nor require congressional appropriation of funds. It is important to note that only about five percent of the international agreement entered into by the US Governments require Senate advice and consent.". The letter is quoted in full in Footnote 42 Archived 2008-06-15 at the Wayback Machine of
  5. Milestones: 1776–1783: The Model Treaty, 1776, Department of State, Office of the Historian, via archive.org
  6. Neutrality – The eighteenth century "Following the end of the war, the United States signed treaties of amity and commerce with Sweden in 1783, Prussia in 1785, and Morocco in 1787."
  7. Treaty with the Ottoman Porte, p. 408. List of the Treaties between the United States and Foreign Nations [to 1845], U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875. Library of Congress
  8. Mustafa Aydın, Çağrı Erhan and Gökhan Erdem, CHRONOLOGY OF TURKİSH-AMERİCAN RELATİONS, Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University
  9. Treaty of Amity and Commerce, p. 458. List of the Treaties between the United States and Foreign Nations [to 1845], U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875. Library of Congress
  10. "IDA Treaties Explorer". Indigenous Digital Archive. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  11. Vargo, Samuel (21 November 2014). "With more than ..500 treaties already broken, the government can do whatever it wants, it seems..." Daily Kos. Retrieved 9 October 2016. More than 500 treaties have been made between the government and Indian tribes and all were broken, nulllified or amended.
  12. Toensing, Gale Courey (23 August 2013). "'Honor the Treaties': UN Human Rights Chief's Message". Indian Country Today Media Network. Archived from the original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016. The U.S. federal government entered into more than 500 treaties with Indian nations from 1778 to 1871; every one of them was "broken, changed or nullified when it served the government's interests," Helen Oliff wrote in "Treaties Made, Treaties Broken."
  13. Egan, Timothy (25 June 2000). "Mending a Trail of Broken Treaties". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  14. DeLoria, Jr., Vine (2010). Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70754-2. Entire book is dedicated to examining these broken treaties.
  15. Wildenthal, Bryan H. (2003). Native American Sovereignty on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents. ABC-CLIO. p. 122. ISBN 1-57607-625-3. The field of Indian law rests mainly on the old treaties.

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