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Ghost dance
When wovoka got a revolution about a mysterious experience he started to tell the native Americans to participate in the rituals of the ghost dance to prepare for the violence that would come back. -
St. Clair’s Defeat.
In 1791 Arthur realized that his force of 1400 men were under attack by the Indians. About 900 men from his force got hurt under the attack. -
Trail of tears.
The first cherokees party that stood against the removal started to marsh to their new lands, that later got the name Orlando. The marsh got named later to the trails of tears. -
The U.S and eight Indian nations signed the fort Laramie Treaty.
The British people lost and the Americans took over everything. -
Sand Creek Massacare
Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho warriors raid and burn the town of Julesburg, Colorado in retaliation for the massacre at Sand Creek 39 days earlier. -
Gold was discovered in Black Hills of South Dakota.
Lakota Sioux want to stop the white people from digging up their land. -
General Custer and his troops got killed in the war against Lakota Sioux.
Custer had been ordered to wait for help but he couldn’t hold it back and didn’t wait for help. -
Treaty of Paris
The USA ended all of their agreements between Great Britain and the USAm which affected the Native Americans. -
Robert Lethan Owen was a Cherokee Indian and became the first Native Americans senator.
He represented Oklahoma in the senate until 1925. -
Death of wovoka
In 1932 Jack Wilson dies in Yerington, Nevada. When he lived he used to lead the rituals of the ghost dance. -
Jim Thorpe named the greatest athlete in the first 20th century.
He was one of the best athletes in history, he was a football player, baseball player, basketball player and an Olympic champion in track & field. -
In Florida the first Indian casino opened, it was just a high skates bingo parlor but they really though Indian gaming could grow.
The though Indian gaming would grow into a major source of income for many of the Indian tribes in America.