17-604: Indian Mills may refer to: Indian Mills, New Jersey Indian Mills, West Virginia [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_Mills&oldid=932890078 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
34-649: A great step towards it, & for this reason we intend to stand by or rather stand Hand in hand against any coming on the Indian Lands . In 1796, the Oneidas of Stockbridge invited Brotherton's Lenape families to join their reservation . The initial Lenape response was negative; in 1798, Munsee Lenape community leaders Bartholomew Calvin, Jason Skekit, and 18 others signed a public statement of refusal to leave "our fine place in Jersey ." However, in 1801, many of
51-571: A thing that will not be allowed by us, that of Renting or giving Leases for said Lands, hereafter, no, not by the proprietors themselves without the consent of the rest much more by those who has no Claim or Rite here ... We have come upon those resolutions we hope for our better living in friendship among one another, it may be that there is some which does not like white people for their Neighbours, for fear of their not agreeing as they ought to do. it might be about there children or about something they have about them we know not what, Again it may be
68-585: Is any of the many self-governing Native American/American Indian communities throughout the United States . As a legal category, it includes "all land within the limits of any Indian reservation ", "all dependent Indian communities within the borders of the United States", and "all Indian allotments, the Indian titles to which have not been extinguished." The American military has since applied
85-602: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Indian Mills, New Jersey Indian Mills, formerly known as Brotherton , is an unincorporated community located within Shamong Township in Burlington County , in the U.S. state of New Jersey . It was the site of Brotherton Indian Reservation, the only Indian reservation in New Jersey and
102-790: The Northwest Territory . Most Indians in the area of the former Reserve were either killed or relocated further west under policies of Indian Removal . After the Louisiana Purchase , the Indian Intercourse Act of 1834 created the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River as a destination. It too was gradually divided into territories and states for European American settlement, leaving only modern Indian Reservations inside
119-764: The de facto boundary between settled territory and Indian country during the 18th century was roughly the crest of the Appalachian Mountains , a boundary set into law by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 , the Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783 , and later by the Nonintercourse Act . The Indian Reserve was gradually settled by European Americans and divided into territories and states, starting with Kentucky County (an extension of Virginia) and
136-420: The frontier of settlement that were inhabited primarily by Native Americans. Colonists made treaties with Native Americans, agreeing to offer services and protection indefinitely in exchange for peaceful transfer of Native American land. Many of these treaties were arranged and signed through coercion, and many treaty agreements were violated or ignored. As the original 13 colonies grew and treaties were made,
153-493: The reservation , making circumstances increasingly difficult. In 1780, Munsee Lenape community leaders of Brotherton, native to Washington Valley , wrote a community treaty to oppose selling any more land to white settlers: Be it known by this, that it has been in our consideration of late about settling of White People on the Indian Lands, And we have concluded that it is a thing which ought not to be, &
170-528: The Munsee Lenape families agreed to relocate to New Stockbridge, New York to join the Oneidas . A few Munsee Lenapes stayed behind and assimilated with the white colonists . In 1822, the remaining families were forcefully displaced over 900 miles' travel away to Green Bay, Wisconsin . This Burlington County, New Jersey state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Indian country Indian country
187-548: The Munsee Lenape native to the Washington Valley . For 100 years prior, the groups had been on peaceful terms. In 1757, the "New Jersey Association for Helping the Indians" wrote a constitution to expel Munsee Lenape native to the Washington Valley . Led by Reverend John Brainerd , colonists forcefully relocated 200 people to Indian Mills, then known as Brotherton. In 1777, Reverend John Brainerd abandoned
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#1732771782563204-494: The U.S. Census of 2010, over 78% of all Native Americans live off reservations. Indian country now spans thousands of rural areas, towns and cities where Indian people live. This convention is followed generally in colloquial speech and is reflected in publications such as the Native American newspaper Indian Country Today Historically, Indian country was considered the areas, regions, territories or countries beyond
221-937: The boundaries of U.S. states. In 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v. Oklahoma that the tribal statistical area (and former reservation ) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation remains under the tribal sovereignty of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation for the purposes of the Major Crimes Act . During the Vietnam War circa 1968, the American military and pilots referred to free-fire zones under South Vietnamese control as "Indian Country." American military personnel also used
238-666: The first in America, founded for the Lenni Lenape tribe , some of whom were native to New Jersey 's Washington Valley . Before becoming a reservation , it was an industrial town , known for gristmills and sawmills . Brotherton was the first Native American reservation in New Jersey. The town was also historically known as Edgepillock or Edgepelick. In 1756, the British colonial government appointed commissioners to resolve disputes between white settlers and
255-407: The term " savage " and "uncivilized" to refer to its inhabitants. During a 1971 congressional hearing, American airborne ranger Robert Bowie Johnson Jr. defined the term to politician John F. Seiberling : ...it means different things to different people. It is like there are savages out there, there are gooks out there. In the same way we slaughtered the Indian's buffalo , we would slaughter
272-474: The term to sovereign land outside its control, including land in Vietnam. This legal classification defines American Indian tribal and individual land holdings as part of a reservation, an allotment, or a public domain allotment. All federal trust lands held for Native American tribes are Indian country. Federal, state, and local governments use this category in their legal processes. Today, however, according to
289-518: The white Man may do something either upon Land, Timber or something else which some one of the proprietors would not like & from thence would come great deal of Disquietness, & many other ways which may plainly be seen into, by those that have any sense or reason— We are exceeding glad when we see we are like to live in Quietness among one another without giving any offence to one another, & this of keeping white people from among us will be
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