This interactive features illustrated stories of the strategies that American Indian leaders from six different nations used in their attempts to keep their homelands.

This interactive uses primary sources, quotes, images, animations, and short videos of contemporary Muscogee people to tell the story of the Muscogee Nation's experience before, during, and after removal.

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

This online lesson provides Native perspectives, images, documents, and other sources to help students and teachers understand the difficult choices and consequences the Pawnee Nation faced when entering into treaty negotiations with the United States.

This interactive uses primary sources, quotes, images, and short videos of contemporary Cherokee people to tell the story of how the Cherokee Nation resisted removal and persisted to renew and rebuild their nation.

This animated video captures the responses of middle school students who learned about the history of American Indian removal.

This online lesson provides Native perspectives, images, documents, and other sources to help students and teachers understand the remarkable nature of the Navajo Treaty of 1868 and why the Navajo maintained an unflinching resolve to return home.

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

This video shares how the National Museum of the American Indian's resources can be used for research in the National History Day competition.

The Treaty of New Echota was used by the United States to justify the removal of the Cherokee people along the Trail of Tears.

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition and the author of Jacksonland, discusses President Andrew Jackson’s long-running conflict with John Ross, a Cherokee chief who resisted the removal of Indians from the eastern United States in the 1830s.

Written on paper from an army ledger book, the Navajo Nation Treaty reunited the Navajo with a portion of the land taken from them by the U.S. government.

The Indian Removal Act, signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, became for American Indians one of the most detrimental laws in U.S. history.

Catherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer for the Cherokee Nation, gives a talk on what led up to the Cherokee Trail of Tears.

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.

Why did treaty-making with Indian nations fall into disfavor? The answer lies in understanding the transformation of American thought about Indian nations after the Civil War.

Treaties matter, not only to American Indians, but to everyone who lives in the United States.

Catherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer for the Cherokee Nation, addresses the Trail of Tears and the events that led up to the removal of the Cherokee people.

Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) coordinated a workshop to guide both advanced and novice Choctaw writers in writing fictional removal stories based on historical events and family histories.