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The Gnadenhutten Massacre
a group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Indians. Captain David Williamson ordered the converted Delawares, who had been blamed for attacks on white settlements, to go to the cooper shop two at a time, where militiamen beat them to death with wooden mallets and hatchets. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
Charismatic Shawnee war leader, Tecumseh, and his brother, known as the Prophet, convinced Indians of various tribes that it was in their interest to stop tribal in-fighting and band together to protect their mutual interests then they persuaded the British to fight alongside with his warriors against the Americans. -
Indian removal act
institutionalized the practice of forcing Native Americans off of their ancestral lands in order to make way for European settlement. -
Indian Appropriations Act of 1851
This was a rule to keep Native Americans off of lands white americans wish to settle. -
Mankato Executions
Dakotas continued raiding, in which 490 settlers, mostly women and children, were killed. President Lincoln sent soldiers, who defeated the Dakota; and after a series of mass trials, more than 300 Dakota men were sentenced to death. -
On the reservation
In December 1890, several weeks after the famed Sioux Chief Sitting Bull was killed while being arrested, the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry massacred 150 to 200 ghost dancers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. -
The Dawes Act
The act authorized the president to confiscate and redistribute tribal lands in the American West. It explicitly sought to destroy the social cohesion of Indian tribes and to thereby eliminate the remaining vestiges of Indian culture and society -
Wounded Knee
In December, several weeks after the famed Sioux Chief Sitting Bull was killed while being arrested, the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry massacred 150 to 200 ghost dancers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. -
Curtis Act
amended the Dawes Act to apply to the Five Civilized Tribes as well. Their tribal governments were obliterated, their tribal courts were destroyed, and over ninety million acres of their tribal lands were sold off to white Americans. weakened tribal governments and divided communal lands in Indian Territory -
U.S Indian Reorganization Act
authorized a “New Deal” for Native American Indians, allowing them to organize and form their own tribal governments, and ending the land allotments created by Dawes Act.