Native American History Timeline

By ellapettersson

  • Treatry of Paris

    Treatry of Paris
    The treatry of Paris is important because it says that America should be recognised as its own country and therefore saying that the settelers owns the Native American territories too.

  • Cherokee Indians are forced to walk to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears

    Cherokee Indians are forced to walk to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears
    President Andrew Jackson orders Cherokee Indians to walk from Mississippi to an unsafe place in Oklahoma. Over 4000 Indians die on the long walk.

  • Sand creek massacre

    Sand creek massacre
    American soildiers atackt a little Native American village and killed about 160, most of them where women and children.

  • Over 600 Lakota Sioux die in the Wounded Kee Massacre

    Over 600 Lakota Sioux die in the Wounded Kee Massacre
    The U.S troops throught that the Sioux were going to destroy for the white mens. So someone start a fire and over 300 Lakota Sioux die in the fire.

  • Robert Latham Owen becomes the first Native American senator.

    Robert Latham Owen becomes the first Native American senator.
    Robert Latham Owen becomes the first Native Americans who serve in the U.S.

  • Society of American Indians

    Society of American Indians
    This was the first national organization for Native Americans rights and it gave natives a chance of getting higher education and a voice in American poilitics.