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Annotated timeline for Native Americans

By graceejaekimbro
  • 1492

    1492

    1492
    Christopher Columbus lands on Caribbean Island after three months. Once he met the Native Americans, he gave them the name of “Indians”. The first day he was there, he ordered six of them to be his servants.

  • 1788

    1788
    Sacajawea is Born

  • November 2 1804

    November 2 1804
    Sacajawea meetsLewis and Clark while 6 months pregnant. The two explorers value her as a translator

  • April 7 1805

    April 7 1805
    Sacajawea, Charbonneau (her husband), and her baby boy join Lewis and Clark on their voyage/expedition.

  • May 28 1830

    May 28 1830
    President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian removal act. The native Americans loose their land and move west fog the Mississippi River.

  • 1838

    1838
    Only 2,000 of the Native Americans (Cherokees) have left their land. The ones who refused to leave are forced out by gun point by General Winfield Scott and 7,000 troops. Over 5,000 Cherokee died because of this.

  • 1851

    1851
    Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act, creating the Indian Reservation System. Native Americans are no longer allowed to leave their reservations without permission.

  • 1868

    1868
    The US government and the Sioux sign the treaty of fort Laramie. This treaty makes it so that the black hills in South Dakota is Sioux and Arapaho territory.

  • 1874

    1874
    Gold is delivered in the black hills of South Dakota. Therefore, US troops ignore the treaty of Fort Laramie and invite their territory.

  • 1907

    1907
    Charles Curtis becomes the first Native American to become US senator

  • 1924

    1924
    The Indian Citizenship Act is passed by congress. This granted citizenship to all of the native Americans born in the territorial limits of the country.