answer the question: how the United states would be different today if our government had kept all the treaties it signed with the Native Americans

In 1778 , the Native Americans of Delaware and soldiers of the confederation of the United States signed a treaty agreeing that each side would be peaceful to the other . Indeed , the treaty said that the two groups would form a state together that would have representation in Congress (Kappler , 1904 . Had this treaty been faithfully kept , the political landscape of the United States would have been markedly different . Perhaps the presence of Native American representatives and senators would not be as proportionately low . Similarly , in 1784 Americans Commissioners Plenipotentiary , signed a treaty

guaranteeing the protection of six Native American tribes - the Seneca , Mohawk Onondaga and Cayuga . If these tribes , said the commissioners , would give up the hostages they took , then the United States would protect them and they would be secure in their land (Kappler , 1904 . This treaty was not kept either . Had it been , land stretching eastward from Lake Ontario and south to Pennsylvania would belong to Native Americans only . This tone of peace and restoration marked most of the treaties between the Americans of European descent and the various tribes

Indeed , in 1814 , the Americans signed The Treaty of Peace and Amity Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America , in which one article says that the Americans will restore to the tribes every possession , right or privilege lost (Bernholz , 2002 . Had this been the case , American geography would be incredibly different . The Cherokee had occupied nearly all of Kentucky and Tennessee , well over half of...