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The Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs' mission is to enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes and Alaska Natives. -
Indian Removal Act
This act allowed the United States to forced the Indians to move beyond the Mississippi River. -
Homestead Act
Anyone over the age of 21 that had never taken up arms against the United States could file to claim federal land -
Little Crow’s War
Was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux -
Dakota War of 1862
Was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux -
Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre resulted in a heavy loss of life, mostly among Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children. -
Fetterman Massacre
Fetterman Massacre or Battle of the Hundred Slain, was a battle during Red Cloud's War on December 21, 1866, between the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and soldiers of the United States army. -
Fort Laramie Treaty
This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory. -
Completion of Trans-Cont R.R.
A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. -
Indian Appropriations Act
The 1851 Indian Appropriations Act allotted funds to move western tribes onto reservations. -
Camp Grant, AZ Apache massacre
An unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O'odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. -
Cheyenne Uprising
Was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877 involving the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. -
The Lakota War
A war between the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Lieutenant Colonel Custer and his U.S. Army troops are defeated in battle with Native American Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne -
Desert Land Act
Through the Act, individuals may apply for a desert-land entry to reclaim, irrigate, and cultivate arid and semiarid public lands. -
Capture of Nez Perce
Chief Joseph surrendered to General Oliver O. Howard of the U.S. Cavalry. -
Pratt Boarding School
The United States tried to "Americanize" the native americans so they built them a school so they could learn. -
A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson
Tells the experiences of Native Americans in the United States, focusing on the hard ships. -
Billy the Kid
A famous outlaw that fought in the land dispute called "The Lincoln County War" -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Dead man’s hand
A two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and black eights. Along with an unknown "hole" card. -
Red Cloud’s War
Was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho on one side and the United States in Wyoming and Montana territories -
Capture of Geronimo
Geronimo and his followers had little or no time to rest or stay in one place. Completely worn out, the little band of Apaches returned to the U.S. with Lawton and officially surrendered to General Miles -
Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Bill Cody’s “Wild West Show”
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show opens in London, giving Queen Victoria and her subjects their first look at real cowboys and Indians. -
Yosemite National Park
United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in the central eastern portion of the U.S. state of California. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Resulted in the deaths of perhaps 300 Sioux men, women, and children. -
Forest Reserve Act
Allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public . -
Turner Thesis
Is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American frontier. -
Carey Act
Allowed private companies in the U.S. to erect irrigation systems in the western semi-arid states, and profit from the sales of water.
