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Five Native American nations entered treaties with the Confederacy during the Civil War, while some of their citizens held African Americans in slavery. The Reconstruction treaties of 1866 established freedom and varying citizenship, land, and financial protections for Freedmen. More than 160 years later, the consequences of those agreements continue to shape legal disputes and questions of historical accountability.
Once a burial ground for Staten Island’s Black community, Cherry Lane Cemetery eventually disappeared beneath commercial development. InnerKwest follows the surviving records, unresolved legal history and people working to recover what the landscape nearly erased.
The 1866 treaties freed enslaved people in Native nations but did not secure full inclusion. This piece examines Freedmen citizenship, land, and ongoing legal battles.
Decades before the Civil War, Charleston authorities uncovered a planned slave uprising led by Denmark Vesey that they believed could mobilize tens of thousands.
