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Between 1778 and 1871 the United States ratified roughly 370 treaties with Native nations — and broke essentially all of them. Most Americans were never told it happened. As Long as the Grass Grows is a 15-part ReThink History series that walks that record treaty by treaty: the first broken promise at Fort Pitt in 1778, the founders' word to the Haudenosaunee, Andrew Jackson's doctrine and the Trail of Tears, the legal machine that made treaty-breaking lawful, the seizure of the sacred Black Hills, and the fights still alive today at Standing Rock and inside the Supreme Court. It asks the hard questions head-on — why the country broke them, what argument defends the breaking, what the tribes said when the promises fell, who really 'used smallpox' and how much of that story is true, which administrations shared Jackson's view, and which would face charges for crimes against humanity if that law had existed in their time. Measured and steelmanned on every side, it is told by a narrator who saw the aftermath firsthand, from a boyhood visit to the St. Croix Chippewa's Sand Lake community in Wisconsin — a nation left out of the treaties entirely — to a life lived across Indian country from Wisconsin to Alaska. Narrated by AI voices from sourced, human-reviewed research.
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The treaties are not dead law. In 2020 the Supreme Court held in McGirt that a nineteenth-century Muscogee reservation was never disestablished. At Standing Rock, an 1868 treaty became a rallying cry. The Sioux still ref
Every other episode is about a broken promise. This one is about a promise never made. The St. Croix Chippewa were left out of the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe and lost their federal identity for eighty years — landless squa
If the laws had existed then, which administrations would face charges? This episode runs the record against the actual legal instruments — Nuremberg, the 1948 Genocide Convention, the Rome Statute — and steelmans the de
When the promises fell, the tribes answered — in words we mostly know only through the very people who broke them. This episode gathers the authenticated voices: Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Standing Bear's cou
Who 'used smallpox' against Native Americans? The honest answer is narrower than the legend — and the truth is more damning. This episode separates fact from myth: the one documented deliberate attempt, at British-held F
Andrew Jackson's belief — that Native nations must assimilate, remove, or vanish — outlived him by more than a century, carried by presidents of both parties. This episode follows the through-line: Lincoln approving the
The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty guaranteed the Black Hills to the Sioux for their 'absolute and undisturbed use,' and required three-quarters of the nation to approve any sale. Then gold was found — and the government took
On the Plains the pattern was almost mechanical: promise territory and rations, then cut the annuities, fail to stop the gold-seekers, and send the Army when starving people left to hunt. This episode follows the 1851 Fo
If the United States broke almost every treaty it signed, how was any of it legal? This episode traces the machine: the Doctrine of Discovery imported into American law in Johnson v. M'Intosh, the Marshall Trilogy that r
The Treaty of New Echota was signed by a handful of Cherokee men who had no authority to sign anything. A petition of sixteen thousand Cherokees begged the Senate to reject it. The Senate ratified it by a single vote — a
Even his own Creek allies weren't spared. After the Creek War, Andrew Jackson forced the entire Creek Nation to cede twenty-three million acres in a 'conquered peace.' This episode takes Jackson's own words seriously — h
The 1795 Treaty of Greenville drew a line across Ohio meant to separate Native land from American settlement forever. Settlers crossed it almost immediately. When William Henry Harrison bought three million acres in 1809
The 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, signed for George Washington with the Haudenosaunee, is still marked by an annual treaty-cloth payment today. But this episode shows both sides of the founders' word: the punitive 1784 Tre
The first treaty the United States ever signed with a Native nation — the 1778 Treaty of Fort Pitt with the Lenape — offered something astonishing: the possibility of a Native-led 14th state. Within four years the promis
Between 1778 and 1871 the United States ratified roughly 370 treaties with Native nations — and broke essentially all of them. This opening episode sets the scale and the stakes: the 'as long as the grass grows' language
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