Native American History

  • Period: May 9, 1400 to May 9, 1499

    Iroquois League; Iroquois Constitution

  • May 9, 1492

    Columbus Arrives

  • Jamestown: Pohatans

  • Pequot Wars

    British colonists (Naraganset) v Pequot (Dutch)
    Genocide in Connecticut
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    King Phillip's War; Metacomet

    Massosoit's son
    Wampanoags try to stop encroachment
    Tribe moves west
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    French and Indian War

    fought against expansion of British Colonists into Ohio Valley
    Coloies gain territory
  • Pontiac's Rebellion

    Pontiac not happy w/ F&I war
    Colonists demand protection
    Proclamation of 1763
  • Northwest Ordinance

    Indian lands shall never be taken w/o consent
    And it totally doesn't happen
  • indian Intercourse Act

    Resistance by little Turtle
  • Battle of Fallen Timbers

  • Creek Rebellion

  • First Seminole War

  • Battle of tippecanoe

    Tecumsah killed
  • Second Seminole War

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs

  • Indian Removal Act

    Move west of Mississippi River
  • Cherokee v Georgia

  • Worcester v Georgia

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    Trail of Tears

    Winter movement to Oklahoma
  • Interior Department created

    BIA moved to this department
  • Treaty of Ft Laramie

    Black Hills for Lakota for all time
    That worked
  • All natives were to move to reservations

  • Battle of Little big Horn

    Defeat of US calvalry
  • Dawes Act

    Break up tribal land
    160 acres to Indians if reject tribe
    citizenshiip in25 years (didn't happen)
    whites ended up getting the land (how?!)
  • Ghost Dance/ Wounded Knee Massacre

    Spiritual reawakening
    Outlawed
    End of Indian Wars
  • Native Americans granted Citizenship

  • Indian Reorganization Act

    Reversed Dawes Act
    Encouraged tribal approach
  • Policy of Termination

    Encourage Natives to move into cities
    ASSIMILATE
  • American Indian Movement

    Chippewas
    George Mitchell and Dennis Banks
  • BIA takeover in DC

    BIA takeover in DC
    Began with demand for civil rights but people focused on vandalism Wait, that isn't the vandalism we're talking about?
  • Black Hills had been stolen

    Compensation
    Lakotas say no
  • Bill Bradley Bill Dies in Congress

    They couldn't choose a better name but the Bill Bradley Bill