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Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs mission is to inhance the quaity of life, promote economic opportunity and to carry out the responsibillity to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives -
Indian Removal Act
Was a law passed by Congress during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indians tribles in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of mississippi River for exchange for their homelands. -
Indian Appropriations Act
The indian Appropriations Act estabished that the tribes were no longer recongized as their own nations so therefore, the US was not obligated to make treaties with the Native Americans in order to obtain land. -
Billy the kid
Irish American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. -
Comstock Lode
Was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States. After the discovery it sparked a silver rush of propectors to the area, scrambling to make their claim. -
Homestead Act
Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. -
Battle of Apache Pass
The Battle of Apache Pass was fought at Apache Pass, Arizona, in the United States, between Apache warriors and the Union volunteers. -
Little Crow’s War
This was another war between white men and the Little Crow’s tribe. The reason for the war was the white men wanting to get revenge on the tribe. Little Crow was shot trying to save his son from being hunted. -
Dakota War of 1862
A war Between European- Americans and the Dakota people. This war was because of lies in the treaties that were offered. It affected the Dakota community, they had no support the community was slowly breaking. -
Cheyenne Uprising
Cheyenne let Fort Wise Treaty move on Sand Creek Reservation. Land was poor and many were challenged to find food or die from starvation. -
Bear River Massacre
The U.S soldiers fought against the Shoshones tribe. The white settlers that moved in to their land was not allowing them to pass. In effect more than 400 people died -
Sand Creek Massacre
Sand Creek Massacre happened because of a 700-man force of Colorado Territory Militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of cheyenne and Arapaho. It killed 70-163 Indians, including two thirds of whom were woman and children. -
Red Clouds War
The war was fought over the control of the Powder River Country in north-central Wyoming. The Indians were victorious. They gained legal control of the Powder River country although it was only for eight years until another war broke out. -
Fetterman Massacre
Fetterman Massacre is a between the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and soldiers of the United States army. It was, at the time, the worst military disaster ever suffered by the U.S. on the Great Plains. The battle led to an Indian victory and the withdrawal of the United States from the war. -
Fort Laramie Treaty
Agreement between the U. S. and Sioux. Also was one of the last treatie signed between the U.S. government and Plains Indians. -
Completion of Trans-Cont R.R.
Railroad was a 1,907 mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863-1869 across western U.S. to Pacific coast. The railroad established a mechanized transcontinental transportation netweork that helped the settlement and economy of the American West by bringing these western states and territories firmly and profably into the Union and making good transportation much quicker, cheaper and much more flexible from coast to coast. -
End of buffalo population
Many new white settlers killed buffalo when arriving on the new land mainly for money from their hides, which made many Indians very upset because they only killed bufffalo for what they needed such as food, clothes, shelter. -
Camp Grant
was an attack on Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches who surrended to the US Army at camp Grant, AZ. The massacre led to series of battles and campaigns fought between the Americans the Apache and their Yavapi Allies. -
Great Sioux War
Same as Lakota war. From 1876-1877 Custer's Last stand happened here -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The battle was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapho tribes against the seventh cavalry regiment of the US Army. THe Indians last armed efforts to perserve their way of life. -
“dead man’s hand”
The dead man's hand is described as a two-pair poker hand donsisting of the black aces and black eights. -
The Lakota War
Known as The Great Sioux War or Black Hill War. Battle that Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne were fighting against the U.S. -
Desert Land Act
The Desert Land Act was passed to promote the development of arid western lands. The act allowed settlers 640 acres of public land at a cost of .25 cents an acre in return for settlers' promise to irrigate the land within 3 years. -
Capture of Nez Perce
Was an armed conflix between several bands of the nez Perce trible. They fought because of the refusal of several bands of the nez Perce "non-treaty Indians" to give up their ancestral lands in Pacific Northwest and move up to Indian Reservation in Idaho. -
Battle of Lincoln
It was a five day long firefight. The largest aarmed battle of the Lincoln County war. It was the climax of that conflict taking place in America's wild west in New Mexico. -
A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson
the book was written to let the Congress know what was going on. Her book brought light to the moral injustices enacted upon the Native Americans as it chronicled the ruthlessness of white settlers in the their greed of land, wealth and power. -
Gunfight at O.K. Coral
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a gunfight that took place at about 3:00 p.m. in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, and is generally regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American Old West. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Was a federal law signed by President Arthur. It was the most significant restictions for free immigration in US History, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Cattle Drives
It was a major economic activity in the American west when 20 million cattle were herded from Texas to railheads in Kansas for shipments to stockyards in Chicago and points east. -
Bill Cody’s “Wild West Show”
Known as the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show that toured in U.S and Europe. A great show that was made by William F. Cody that shown horseback riding and marksmansship on big scales. -
Capture of Geronimo
A leader to Apache tribe of Native Americans. A great hunter, when wife, kids and mother were killed by Mexican soldiers he went to kill them. -
Dawes Act
An act to provide for the lands of severalty to Indians on the various reservations and to extend the protection of laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians -
Edmunds-Tucker Act
The act was passed in responsive to dispute between the United States Congress and The Church of Jesus Christ regarding polygamy. -
Pratt Boarding School
Was the first founded off-reservationIndian boarding school. It was founded on the principle that Native Americans were equal of European-Americans and Native -American children immersed in mainstream Euroo-American culture would learn skills to advance in society. -
Yosemite National Park
The Yosemite Valley has been inhabited for nearly 3000 years. The Paiute and Sierra Miwok peoples lived in the area long before the first explorations by American settlers into the region. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Lakota Sioux chief demanded they surrender their weapons. As that was happening a fight broke out between Indians and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired. A massacre follwed by killing 150 Indians and the cavalry lost 25 men. -
Forest Reserve Act
Is a law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the publc domain. -
Turner Thesis
Argument advanced by historian Fredrerick Jackson Turner. The importance was to shape American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholoary histories. -
Carey Act
The act allowed private companies in the US to erect irrigation systems in the western semi-arid states and profit from the sales of water.
