TIL the Bureau of Indian Affairs still sends bolts of cloth every year to New York Indian tribes as part of the debt owed from the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/07/22/treaty-canandaigua-remains-powerful-symbol-native-sovereignty-41971



Submitted February 05, 2015 at 02:18AM by rytis http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2uslda/til_the_bureau_of_indian_affairs_still_sends/