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Rob Capriccioso

Rob Capriccioso, an award-winning journalist, is the Washington D.C. bureau chief for Indian Country Today Media Network. He was a former reporter for Inside Higher Ed and web producer at Politico and now freelances for newspapers and magazines including the New York Times and the Guardian.

In 1794, President Washington commissioned a wampum belt for the Canandaigua Treaty

Illuminating the Treaties That Have Governed U.S.-Indian Relationships

These documents were both a cause and a salve for the fraught relations between the United States and Indian Nations