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When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of Civilization
A ten year old girl with red hair and freckles was caring for her neighbor's children in rural western Pennsylvania. Delaware Indians kidnapped her and absorbed her into their community for the next six years. -
The Gnadenhutten Massacre
A group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians illustrating the growth contempt for native people. Captain David Williamson ordered the converted Delawares to go to the cooper shop two at a time where militiamen beat them to death with wooden mallets and hatchets. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
Shawnee war leader and his brother known as the prohpet, convinced indians of various tribes that it was their interest to stop tribal in fighting and band together to protect their mutual interest. -
The Creek War
An inter tribal conflict among Creek indian factions, the war also engaged US militias along with the British and Spanish who backed the Indians to help keep americans from encroaching on their interests. -
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Institutionalized the practice of forcing Native Americans off of their ancestral lands in order to make way for European settlement. The government forcibly relocated the Five Civilized Tribes. -
Custer's Campaigns
George Armstrong Custer rode in front of his mostly Irish Seventh Cavalry to the Irish drinking tune. Custer wanted fame and found killing indians, especially the peaceful ones, an opportunity. -
The Dawes Act of 1877
Authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens. -
The destruction and resurrection of the reservation system
Ended the reservation system by authorizing the federal confiscation and redistribution of tribal lands. The aim of the act was to destroy tribal governing councils and assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by replacing their communal traditions with a culture centered on the individual. -
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. He said he revealed to him a bountiful land of love and peace and found a spiritual movement called the Ghost Dance. -
The massacre at Wounded Knee
The US 7th Cavalry Regiment surrounded an encampment of Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. While attempting to disarm the Sioux, a shot was fired and a scuffle ensued. The US army soldiers opened fire.