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Native American Timeline

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  • Sand Creek Massacre

    Sand Creek Massacre
    The Sand Creek Massacre was an atrocity in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho.

  • Red Cloud's War

    Red Cloud's War
    The war was fought over control of the Powder River Country in north-central Wyoming.The United States named the war after Red Cloud, a prominent Oglala Lakota chief who led his followers in opposition to the presence of the U.S. military in the area.

  • Red River War

    Red River War
    Oct 1, 1874-1875
    The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United States in 1874. Through the last significantly sized group wouldn't surrender until mid-1875

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn
    The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans involved, as the Battle of the Greasy Grass.The battle, which occurred on June 25 and 26, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

  • Dawes Severalty Act

    Dawes Severalty Act
    The Dawes Act adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act.

  • B attle of Wounded Knee

    B attle of Wounded Knee
    The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890,near Wounded Knee Creek.By the time it was over, at least 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota Sioux had been killed and 51 wounded (4 men, 47 women and children, some of whom died later).

  • A Century Of Dishonor

    A Century Of Dishonor
    Jackson wrote "A Century of Dishonor" in an attempt to change government ideas/policy toward Native Americans at a time when effects of the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act.

  • Navajo and Apache Wars

    Navajo and Apache Wars
    The Navajo Wars also encompass the widespread raiding that took place throughout the period; the Navajo raided other tribes and nearby settlements.The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States and Apaches fought in the Southwest from 1849 to 1886.