Back in the 1700s, the Massachusetts government offered money or land — or both — to the men who brought them the scalps of ...

The Department of Justice recently argued that birthright citizenship does not apply to Native Americans ... the Justice Department cited a 19th-century case arguing that “Indians” should ...

In 1724, at the request of Captain John Lovewell, the Massachusetts government offered 100 pounds — about the annual salary of a schoolteacher at the time — for each male Native American scalp ... at ...

This is a developing story. Questions about whether Native Americans born in the United States have birthright citizenship if they aren’t “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. — such ...

(That exception is moribund because Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans by statute through ... As a result, for the last century or so, the prevailing legal and constitutional ...

Yet that term is entirely absent in Blackstone’s “Commentaries,” the leading British legal treatise of the 18th century ... language securing citizenship to black Americans also secure ...

went to visit relatives in China and was denied re-entry into the U.S. on the grounds that he was not an American citizen. In 1898, the Supreme Court upheld his citizenship, establishing that ...

Bushy Run canceled its August reenactment — which tells the story of a 1763 clash between British soldiers and Native Americans during ... have been found in an 18th century frontier trading ...

This is a country that once ceased to exist, after powerful neighbors gobbled it up in the 18th century until the end ... that included suppression of their native Polish language.

But the islanders, some with roots on the territory stretching back to the 18th century ... in the US. Having reached a legal dead end in the UK, the 60-year-old Peros Banhos native opted to ...