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Sep 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus kills some Native Americans
Christopher Columbus come to the new found America and began to kill and transport native americans to Spain -
Period: Sep 1, 1492 to
Native American and Latino Rights
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Indian Removal Act
This act allowed the negotiation with Native Americans for their removal from their land, in exhange for land more west. -
"The Trial of Tears"
As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
Indian Appropriation Act of 1851
Funding for reservations for Native Americans began, also reservations were created for Native Americans to keep them safe. -
Indian Appropriation Act of 1871
Nativer American tribes were no longer recognized as an independent nation by the federal government. -
Indians Rights Association
The Indian Rights Association was created to protect the interests and rights of Indians. -
Dawes Act
Allowed the president to survey Indian land and divide it to give to individual Indians. Made them into landowners and farmers. Made them into citizens by forcing them to hold land for 25 years. -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
During the 1890's, a Native American shaman, named Wovoka, began teaching people about his visions for the future.He said the living would join with the dead. To make this happen, he told people they would have to perform the Ghost Dance. European settlers were worried at the sight of people dancing in the snow.The army was sent into the Native American camps to arrest the leaders and take away their weapons until things settled down. Chief Sitting Bull was killed when the army tried to arrest h -
Curtis Act
This Congressional Act ended tribal governments practice of refusing allotments and mandated the allotment of tribal lands in Indian Territory. -
Navajo code talkers
Native Americans were used as code talkers in ww2 to send messages in their native language wich the enemy could not understand -
Braceros
The bracero program guaranteed basic humane rights (sanitation, adequate shelter and food), and a minimum wage pay of 30 cents an hour; it also enabled the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States. -
Zoot Suit Riots
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of racial attacks in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, during a period when many migrants arrived for the defense effort and newly assigned servicemen flooded the city. Fights broke out between Mexican immigrants and American saliors -
Latino Rights Movment
Cesar Chavez led Mexican American farmers to picket for better wages. A major moment for the movment was when grape farmers for California negotiated better wages
