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The Gnadenhutten Massacre
A group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians. -
The Creek War
A civil war between two factions within the Creek Nation and an international struggle in which the United States, Spain, Britain, and other Indian tribes played a part. -
Forced Removal Act
The moving of people from their homes against their wills, Indians were to give up their lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for lands to the west. -
Indian Reservation System
The Indian reservation system was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle. -
The Sand Creek Massacre
An unprovoked attack on men, women, and children. -
Sioux Treaty of 1868
The treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory. -
Assimilation
The process through which individuals and groups would take Indian children and make them attend boarding schools. -
The Dawes Act of 1887
Authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. -
The Ghost Dance
A shaman of the Northern Paiute tribe, had a vision. Claiming that God had appeared to him in the guise of a Native American and had revealed to him a bountiful land of love and peace, Wovoka founded a spiritual movement called the Ghost Dance. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
A gun was discharged and soldiers opened fire. When the shooting stopped, hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children were dead.