Timelines

  • Forced Removal

    The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Native Americans to leave their homes and relocate to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Many died from disease and starvation during the forced migration
  • Sioux Treaty of 1868

    Sioux Treaty of 1868
    an agreement between the United States and the Sioux and Arapaho Nations that established the Great Sioux Reservation and promised the Sioux would own the Black Hills in perpetuity.
  • The reservation system

    The reservation system
    a policy in the United States that forced Native Americans to live on legally defined portions of land
  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act
    a law passed in 1887 that allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands and redistribute them to Native Americans as individuals.
  • The ghost dance

    The ghost dance
    a spiritual movement that began with the Paiute tribe of Nevada and spread to other Native American tribes in the Western United States
  • wounded knee

    wounded knee
    The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was the massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
  • Indian Citizenship Act

    Granted full U.S. citizenship to Native Americans