It gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi. Under these treaties, the Indians were to give up their lands east of the Mississippi ...

The lawsuit was filed against the heads of the Interior Department, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Indian ...

Burns prosecuted the case. This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians shooting leads to federal prison sentence for Neshoba County man ...