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Smallpox
All over the reservation their was an outbreak of smallpox, Indians that got this disease on the reservations had a 50 - 50 chance of living or dieing. -
Trading on the Reservation
The Spokane Reservation begins to trade with white men, the trading post was called Spokane House -
Wars
Seminole War breaks out -
Court
Supreme Court ruled that the federal government has the sole power to manage Indian lands. This ruling established the rights of white settlers as being held above those of the native inhabitants of the land. -
Schooling
Sons of Spokane and Kutenai Indian leaders are sent to the Red River mission school by the Hudson's Bay Company. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress. on the reservation. -
Samuel Jackson vists the reservation
Samuel Jackson, the first missionary to visit the Spokane, arrived, Spokanes suffered from introduced diseases, including smallpox. Land-grabbing by white settlers was exacerbated by a lack of legal controls to prevent injustice. -
diseases
In the fall, a measles epidemic started killing half of the population. Survivors associated the tragedy with the white settlers -
Alcoholism
Congress passed a law on the indian reservation for alcohol, scince then reservations have been in trouble by social problems, poverty, unemployment and a high rate of alcoholism. -
Spokane Tribe
1860 the Spokane shared the reservation with other tribes in the Northwest and elsewhere. Land-hungry homesteaders settled into this region -
Baptism
One hundred Spokane people had received baptism -
Lower Spokane
Lower Spokane agreed to move to the soon to be Spokane Reservaion Tribe. -
Mining in Spokane Reservation
Indians started disoverying gold, silver, and lead in the region because when somebody dies they have to dig a hole at the cemetary, thats when they found about gold, silver, exc. -
13 Century
Spokane Reservaion people started to get changed by the outside world, Spokanes also constructed permanent villages for the winter by the river for fishing and hunting to gather food. -
Lands Areas.
About 651 memebers on the Spokane reservation got about 64.000 acres of land to farm. -
Free Speech Fight
Free speech fight was conducted in Spokane working class members of the Industrial Workers of the World, In 1908, the Industrial Workers of the World launched a campaign with the slogan "Don't Buy Jobs." They were pushing the city council to pass an ordinance against street speaking, or soapboxing, a common method of recruitment for the union -
Church
St. Joseph Catholic Church opened on the Reservation -
Laws.
1st constitution and the laws were made. -
Uranium Fever
Two brothers on the reservation discovered something that had a fluorescent green glow, they claimed that it was uranium rock, Uranium was worthless in the late 1800s when members of the tribe were moved from their homelands to the Spokane River to the reservation. By the 1950s,uranium oxide was selling for $32,000. -
Poverty
Their is about 40-80% of the Native Americans on the Spkane Reservation and have no job, Most of the Indians who earn money make their money with casinos. -
Casinos on Reservations.
Supreme Court ruled that as long as a form of gambling is legal in the state where the reservation is located, then reservations can go to casinos. -
U.S. Abondons the Spokane Reservation
The U.S. Army abandoned the Spokane Indian Reservation
