BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4427-51a512e4dc7ad8807c635d8161fbced3@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260628T012546Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T130000 SUMMARY:“Legal Jurisdiction and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Early Indian Ter ritory” DESCRIPTION:\nJacob F. Lee\, Assistant Professor of History\n\n \;\n \nDuring the 1830s and 1840s\, the U.S. policy of Indian removal and the creation of Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma and Kansas forced diverse Indigenous nations to live as neighbors. Western nations found t hemselves confined to a portion of their former territory and living nex t to strangers and sometimes enemies whom the United States had expelled from their homelands in the East. Indigenous nations navigated these ne w relationships\, in part\, by negotiating procedures for handling inter national crimes like murder\, theft\, and bootlegging. In 1843\, five ye ars after the Cherokee Trail of Tears\, the Osage and Cherokee Nations f ormalized how they would handle such matters to prevent individual griev ances from igniting broader conflict between the two nations. Additional ly\, this agreement was an attempt to keep the United States from furthe r meddling in the governance of these nations. During this era\, the Uni ted States used its court system to insinuate itself in matters of juris diction&mdash\;and\, by extension\, citizenship\, and sovereignty&mdash\ ;in Indian Territory. Examining these questions of legal jurisdiction sh eds new light on the strategies Indigenous nations used to defend their sovereignty in this tumultuous era\, as well as the efforts of the Unite d States to exert control over Indian Territory.\n\nFor more details: ht tps://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi-residentlectureseries_0405/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Jacob F. Lee, A ssistant Professor of History

During the 1830s and 1840 s, the U.S. policy of Indian removal and the creation of Indian Territor y in present-day Oklahoma and Kansas forced diverse Indigenous nations t o live as neighbors. Western nations found themselves confined to a port ion of their former territory and living next to strangers and sometimes enemies whom the United States had expelled from their homelands in the East. Indigenous nations navigated these new relationships, in part, by negotiating procedures for handling international crimes like murder, t heft, and bootlegging. In 1843, five years after the Cherokee Trail of T ears, the Osage and Cherokee Nations formalized how they would handle su ch matters to prevent individual grievances from igniting broader confli ct between the two nations. Additionally, this agreement was an attempt to keep the United States from further meddling in the governance of the se nations. During this era, the United States used its court system to insinuate itself in matters of jurisdiction—and, by extension, cit izenship, and sovereignty—in Indian Territory. Examining these que stions of legal jurisdiction sheds new light on the strategies Indigenou s nations used to defend their sovereignty in this tumultuous era, as we ll as the efforts of the United States to exert control over Indian Terr itory.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi-resid entlectureseries_0405/

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