(solemn music continues) - The Treaty of Fontainebleau signed in 1762 transferred all the territory of colonial Louisiana west of the Mississippi River from France to Spain. Just two years later ...

A state legislative committee has endorsed a proposed resolution condemning parts of the 1638 Treaty of Hartford that aimed to erase the Pequot Indian tribe in the wake of the Pequot War ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes ...

Since an Indigenous protest movement surged in the 1970s, Treaty considerations have been a growing part of New Zealand law. Redress efforts have bolstered a dwindling Māori language and culture ...

The sweeping reinterpretation of the 1840 treaty signed by British representatives and 500 Māori chiefs during New Zealand’s colonization was never expected to become law.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and ...

A bill which sought to “reinterpret” New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, signed between Māori tribal leaders and the British Crown in 1840, has failed in parliament by 11 votes to 112.