Native American Timeline - JH

By jhaynesgwd51

  • The Gnadenhutten Massacre

    A group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians,

  • Office of Indian Affairs

    Created in order to resolve the land issue.

  • Indian Removal Act

    Practice of forcing Native Americans off of their ancestral lands in order to make way for European settlement. The US government forcibly relocated the Five Civilized Tribes to territories in the Midwest.
  • The Trail of Tears

    The Trail of Tears

    Deadly route used by Native Americans when forced off their ancestral lands and into Oklahoma

  • Indian Appropriations Act

    The Indian reservation system was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle letting Natives have their own area to practice their culture and social traditions.
  • Mankato Executions

    Mankato Executions

    On the day after Christmas at Mankato, military officials hung 38 Dakotas at once—the largest mass execution in American history.
  • Sioux Treaty

    Sioux Treaty

    This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.
  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act

    Pushing Native Americans into mainstream US society by annihilating their cultural and social traditions.
  • The Ghost Dance

    The Ghost Dance

    A shaman of the Northern Paiute tribe prophesied the reuniting of the remaining Indian tribes of the West and Southwest and the banishment of all evil from the world.

  • Wounded Knee

    While trying to disarm the Sioux Natives, a shot was fired and the US army soldiers then opened fire on the Sioux, indiscriminately massacring hundreds of men, women, and children.