Original Treaties | Indigi-Genius

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Original Treaties | Indigi-Genius

Indigenous people have been forming governments and building nations for hundreds of years. The formal treaties that were made between the first colonists and the First Peoples of America was nothing new to the native communities as they had already had treaties in place between other tribes.

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