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American Indian

By cassimoran
  • Dec 12, 1492

    Discovery of America

    Columbus discovers America
  • Dec 12, 1500

    Widespread Diseases

    The Europeans brought diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, smallpox, measles and influenza to the indigenous population. Native Amrican numbers fell from 80 million to less than 1 million in less than 500 years.

  • Finding of Jamestown

    Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown

  • first colony

    The Mayflower arrived at Plymouth to found first colony in New England

  • Pcahontas

    Pocahontas marries John Rolfe

  • first reservation

    The First Reservations were established by Puritans near New Haven, Connecticut

  • Beaver Wars

    The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars

  • Boston Tea party

    Dumping of tea in the Boston harbor to protest taxes by the England.

  • Creek War

    War in Alabama and Georgia between the Creek Indians and American forces led by Andrew Jackson. The American forces won.

  • Peoria War

    Peoria war was with Us army settlers and tribes of Potawatomi and the Kickapoo tribes in Illinois.

  • First Seminole War

    First Seminole War was in Florida with Seminole Indian tribe defending their land and runaway slaves

  • Winnebago War

    Winnebago War in Wisconsin with settlers and and miners who were trespassing on Winnebago land.

  • Trail of tears

    The Cherokee were the last of the 5 tribes forced to walk to trial of tears.

  • Sioux Wars

    The Sioux Wars in South Dakota, Minnesota and Wyoming led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

  • Apache Wars

    Apache Wars in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas led by Geronimo and Cochise. Geronimo surrendered in 1886 but others carried on the fight until 1900

  • Homestead act

    U.S. Congress passes Homestead Act opening the Great Plains to settlers

  • owning land

    White men recognized the Indigenous land but did not believe they had legal rights to it.

  • Wounded Knee

    The Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota. Chief Big Foot led the last stand of Sioux

  • policy parental rights

    W. B. Sherrard in South Dakota wanted to encode in policy to easily terminate parental rights from Native Americans

  • American Indian US senate

    Charles Curtis is the first American Indian elected to the U.S. Senate

  • US citizens

    All Indians declared citizens of U.S.