Native Americans

  • The native American war

    The settlers started an uneasy relationship with the Indians who had thrived on the land for thousands of years. Primarily over land control, that spanned centuries across North America, marked by westward expansion of the United States and often resulting in forced removal of Native Americans from their traditional territories onto reservations, with significant losses in indigenous populations and culture.
  • The Gnadenhutten Massacre

    The Gnadenhutten Massacre
    a group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians, illustrating the growing contempt for native people.
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    Battle of Tippecanoe
    The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811, between the American forces under the command of William Henry Harrison, and Native American warriors under the leadership of Tenskwatawa, commonly referred to as “The Prophet.” Deemed an American victory, the battle had far-reaching implications with Native American policy and the approaching conflict known as the War of 1812.
  • The reservation system

    The reservation system
    This system was created to keep Native Americans off European land. It also allowed indigenous people to govern themselves and maintain their cultural and social traditions.
  • Sioux Treaty of 1868

    Sioux Treaty of 1868
    The Sioux Treaty was a war fought because Custer led an expedition with his miners to the Sioux people's land to seek gold. Soon after, Custer's detachment was destroyed, and the U.S. continued to fight over the Black Hills.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    The Dawes Act was to take Native Americans into mainstream U.S. society by destroying their cultural and social traditions and was to break up tribal lands and only the natives who accepted it were considered U.S. citizens
  • Assimilation

    Assimilation
    Boarding schools tried to kill Indians. Since there was no more Western territory to push them toward, the U.S. decided to remove Native Americans by assimilating them, but Hiram Price said its cheaper to give them education instead of fighting them.
  • The ghost dance

    The ghost dance
    The ghost dance was a spiritual movement "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" The massacre at Wounded Knee was not the last armed conflict between Native Americans and the US Army, it marked the definitive end of the Indian Wars.
  • Wounded Knee

    Wounded Knee
    Due to being forced to remove and brutal massacres the Native Americans decreased in population. The massacre of Wounded Knee slaughtered hundreds of the Sioux people.
  • Code talkers

    Code talkers
    Native people found one another during the war and informally used their languages to subvert the enemy. Tribes were recruited by the United States military to develop secret battle communications using their languages. “Code Talkers,” as they came to be known after World War II, are twentieth-century American Indian warriors who significantly aided the victories of the United States and its allies.