Native American Wars and Policy

By Ben Ormsby
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus Lands in "New World" in this Year

  • Pequot War in this Year

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 53.

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs is created to handle Indian Relations in this year

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 501.
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    Apache and Navajo Wars in these years

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 499.

  • Start of American Civil War, after Fort Sumpter is fired on

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 353.

  • The Civil War Ends, Juneteenth Day

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 391.

  • Dawes Act breaks up reservations into individual plots in this year

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 504.

  • In the Battle of Little Big Horn US troops led by Custer are defeated in this month and year

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 500.

  • Chief Joseph and his followers flee to Canada in this year

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 502

  • Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor" critisizes U.S. treatment of Indians in this year

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 503.

  • In this year, US forces afraid of the Ghost Dance pursue Indians who had left the reservation, and kill many Indians at the battle of Wounded Knee

    Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, and Alan Taylor. United States History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2008, 502-503.

  • Indian land claims, and other disputes continue into the 21st century