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Indian Removal Act
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
It didn't help the Native Americans even though it was dedicated to the tribes who were kicked off/ treated unfailry -
Pratt Boarding School
Henry Pratt started a boarding school that started to change the cultural differences involving the Indians -
Battle of Apache Pass
It was one of the largest battles fought between the Americans and Chiriacahua. It was to reinforce the New Mexico's army and capture Confederate Arizona -
Homestead Act
You get so many amount of acres of land if you live on it for 7 years -
Bear River Massacre
U.S troops attacked Shoshone viillages -
Sand Creek Massacre
700 milita men under Col. John Chivington murdered over 2/3 of a villiage made up of mostly women and children. -
Fetterman Massacre
2,000 Indains under Crazy Horse and Red Cloud which they ambushed and took 81 soldiers from Colonel Fetterman's party -
Fort Laramie Treaty
The treaty involved Americans and certain Indian tribes promising them the lands of Black Hills which was important to them in their religion and cultural ways -
Indiant Appropraitions Act
Ordered that tribes were not recogonized as separate nations and the U.S government didn't need to make treaties in order to claim tribes' land -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Was Custard's last stand who lost against the tribes again Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho -
"dead man's hand"
Wild Bill Hickok was murdered by getting caught cheating at cards ans was shot -
Capture of Nez Perce
Cheif Joseph tribal leader of the Nez Perce nation took roughy 800 natives to cross Canadian borders but failed 40 miles short caught by the U.S Army with only 418 natives left. They were relocated to OK and were located later on to several places -
Capture of Geronimo
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Dawes Act
The Act was passed which let the President take apart Native American reservations, it impacted the natives because they got lesser amounts of land than before -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Demanded to give the weapons to U.S troops, a shot was fired and U.S troops took fire killing all 300 Native Americans, mostly women and children. It closed the frontier and was the last battle between the Natives and Army -
Turner Thesis
Fredrick Turner gave his frontier expansion speech in Chicago giving his opionion that expansion was advancement history for America, which we had expanded but eventually all the land was taken and the frontier was gone
