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Bureau of Indian Affairs
It was created in the War department. They were in chatge of administration and managment of so many acres. -
Indian Removal Act
President Andrew Jackson was to negotiate with the tribes in the Southern states to move west so the US could have their ancestoral territories. -
Comstock Lode
It was the first Sliver ore found in the US in the Virginia Range in Nevada. -
Homestead Act
Passed by President Lincoln gave federal land grant to anyone 21 years or older who never went against the U.S. government. You also had to be a citizen. -
Little Crow's War
It was a conflict between The US and several eastern Sioux tribes along the Ministoa River. There was miss trust with treaties and payments made between US and the Indians. Some Indians killed a few settlers and then some more attacked settlements there.It lasted for several months of battling between them after that. -
Yosemite National Park
This book was written by Helen Jackson to give a different though toward the veiw point of Native Americans. She heard a testimony from an Indian called Standind Bear and did reserach and saw how the government was being unfair. She sent a copy of her book to each of the congress men. -
Yosemite National Park
Chief Tenaya and his Ahwahneechee were captured and their village was burned. They were sent to a reservation in California. They fought back but again were over taken again. Dr. Lafayette Bunnell gave Yosemite Valley the name it has now. -
Sand Creek Masscre
About 700 calverymen from Colrado territory attacked a quiet village of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. Two thirds were women and childern. -
Red Clouds War
This war was created because of the conflict of territory control over Powder River country in Wyoming. This war last 2 years and was between Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho and the US states in Wyoming and Montana. -
Fetterman Masscre
A fight between Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and the U.S. Army. U.S. Military suffered worst and it was an Indian victory. -
Fort Laramie Treaty
The agreement between the U.S and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation. -
First Transcontinental Railroad
This railroad was being constructed between 1863 to 1869. It connected the Wst to the Pacific coast. It was 1,907 miles. -
Indian Appropriation Acts
It was made up of severl acts made by the U.S. Congress dealing with territorties of the Iindians. -
Camp Grant AZ Apache Massacre
This attack was on the Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches which surrendered to the US at Camp Grant. this also started a number of battes between the U.S. and Apache and their allies the Yavapai which went until 1875. -
Pratt Boarding School
Richard Pratt began a hostility towards Bureau of Indian Affairs because of many complaints. He started a strict education for the Native Americans giving them more freedom as they earned it. -
The Lakota War
As settlers found gold in some of these Indian reservations many Americans moved in and it threatened the Indians of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne which then went against the United States. -
The Battle of little Big horn
One of the last Indian armed efforts in preserving their land. It was between the U.S. 7th Calvary and the Cheyenne and Lakota Indian Tribes. It is a memorial now. -
Cheyenne Uprising
There was a young warrior indian named Sword Bearer who had warriors who tried toavenge differnt tribes and started to annoy Montanans. So the Montanans asked the US government for help. -
Dessert land act
This was passed by US Congress to encourage economic growth of the arid and semiarid public lands in the western states. -
Capture of Nez Perce
There were several bands of indian tribes that were armed to go against the US because one of their treaties about their 7.5 million acres were being violated. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was a US Federal law. It was an important restriction on the immagration in the US. It prohibited all immagration of chiense laborers. -
Bill Cody's "Wild West Show"
Bill Cody was an army scout and buffalo hunter. In this year staged an outdoor theater act called “Wild West, Rocky Mountain, and Prairie Exhibition.” It eas sucessful so he decided to evoke the mythic West more. -
Cattle Drives
A cattle drive was just cowboys moving a herd of cattle from one place to another. -
Capture of Geronimo
Geronimo was a leader of Bedonkohe Apache tribe which fought against Mexico and Texas to expand to their ancestoral territory. After there was a Mexican attack on their tribe killing many who were close him were killed. He and other followers left on a revenge for Mexicans. -
The Dawes Act
It was adopted by congress and created by Henery Dawes to bring Indians into citizenship so the government could make profit from their land. -
Edmunda Tucker Act
Congress restricted the practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was passed because of a discussion of polygamy between them. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Took place by Wounded Knee Creek on Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Troops went into this camp to disarm the Lakota. One indian refused to. So he was shot by a troop which caused an open fire by both sides. -
Forest Reserve act
This Act was passed under Congress during Theodore Roosevelt's's admisstration to set asdide forest reserves with rights that still remain so preserve them. -
Turners Thesis
Frederick Jackson Turner made an agrument about moving the frontier line. He also believed thats what created American democracy. -
Carey Act
The government allowed private companies to have their own irrigation systems in the Western and semi-arid states and they made income off of selling their water.
