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Creation of Bureau of Indian Affairs
This department recognized American Indians as self governing people with their own way of life. Worked with US army to help enforece their policies Even after this was created many settlers attempted to change Indian ways -
Constitution of Cherokee
US government stripped Cherokee of their human rights. -
Removal Act
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, calling for the Native Americans living East of the Mississippi to move west of it. The five tribes relocated to land in what became Oklahoma and Kansas -
Treaty of New Echota
Government tricked Cherokee into signing treaty that required them to voluntarily remove themselves. -
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Appropriation Bill
This Bill allowed the US government to relocate Indians onto reservations to "protect" them from western settlers. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Each tribe accepted land, allowing the US to build roads within these plots, and pledged not to attack settlers. The government paid Indians annualy in this deal aswell. -
Cherokee Council House
Cherokee Houses made in order to form councils to increase involvement in government by the Cherokee -
Reservation control turned over to Church
The Indian reservations were turned over to the Christian church in order to force/convert indians to Christianity -
Indian Appropriations Act
Before written, the federal government recognized indian tribes as independent nations, and after passing they were treated as individuals and tribes were now considered "wards" of the government. -
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
First boarding school off of a reservation that was made to educate Native Americans in the way of the whites. Founded by Richard Pratt, a former military leader in the US -
The Dawes Act
The US government gave 154 million acres of land to indians, and tried integrating them into "civilized life". If an Indian integrated and conformed to US society, they were promised citizenship.
