An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States Ortiz

Treaty of Greenville (1795), 83

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848),

123, 150

Treaty of Holston (1791), 89

Treaty of Hopewell (1785), 88

Treaty of Paris (1763 ), 70, 78

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), 42, 199

treaty rights, 10 , 207-8

"tribal governments," 171, 190

Triple Alliance, 20

Truman, Harry S., 173

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 8, 179

"Turner Thesis," 179

turquoise in Aztec civilization, 20-21,

246n5

"20-Point Position Paper," 185

Ulster-Scots, 51 -54, 24 8nr7
Unassigned Lands, 15 8
Union Army, Indigenous soldiers in,
13 5-3 6
Unitarian Universalist Association
(UUA), 200- 201
United Nations (UN): Convention
on the Prevention and Punish­
ment of the Crime of Genocide,
8; Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, l 8 5, 204,
26on21; International Day of the
World's Indigenous Peoples, 198;
Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues, 200, 26on21; proposals for
Quincentennial year to, 197 -98;
Study on Treaties, 20 5; Working
Group on Indigenous Populations,
26on21
United Provinces of Central America,
rr9-20
United States v. Sioux Nation of Indi­
ans (1980), 207
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (1948), 175, 204
"unlawful combatants," 151 , 222-23

Index 295

urban industrial areas, relocation to,

174

US Army: and Apaches, 13 1-32; and

Bozeman Trail, 145; in California,

130 ; during Civil War, 13 3-34;

departments of, 1 3 3; destruction of

Prophet's Town by, 86 ; formation

of, 80, 82 ; and gold rush, 12 9; and

Indian Removal Act, 1 l 2; invasion

of Mexico by, 12 3; and irregular

warfare, 59, 220; and Modocs,

223; in Philippines, 16 6; and Sioux

Nation, 188, 191; Special Opera­

tions Command of, 22 1-22; in

war "to win the West," 14 4, 149;

Winchester rifle use by, 2 34

US Constitution: Great Law of Peace

and, 26, 24 6nr4; mention of Indig­

enous nations in, 79-80; veneration

of, 50

US military bases, 22 5-26

UUA (Unitarian Universalist Associa­

tion), 200- 201

Vatican, and Quincentennial year,

(^197) - 98
VAWA (Violence Against Women Act,
1994), 214
Venne,Sharon, 203
Vietnam War era, 17 9-91; counter­
insurgency in, 17 6-77, 17 9, 192 -
93; self-determination movement
during, 18 1-86; Taos Pueblo in,
17 9-80; Wounded Knee in, 186 -9 1
Villa, Francisco "Pancho," 167
Vine, David, 225
violence: in irregular warfare, 57 -60;
against Miamis, 82; militariza­
tion and, 22 7; against Muskogee
Nation, 91; in Ohio Country, 71,
73; settler colonialism and, 8;
sexual, 214, 262 n32. See also civil­
ian attacks