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Bureau of Indian Affairs
It is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior. -
Indian Removal Act
The United States made the Indians move to federal reserves so the USA could have their land. -
Fort Laramie Treaty
The Treaty of Fort Laramie was an agreement between the United States and the Lakota people. -
Little Crow's War
Lead by leader of Little Crow. Also known as Dakota War. -
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. -
Dakota War of 1862
The Dakota War of 1862 was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux. -
Cheyenne Uprising
In Colorado, many Cheyenne tribes fought against white settlers. -
Red Cloud's War
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 from 1866 to 1868. -
Fetterman Massacre
The Fetterman Massacre 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. All of Fetterman's men were killed. -
Pratt Boarding School
It was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1867 through 1918. -
Completion of Trans-Cont. R.R.
Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network on the Missouri River -
Sand Creek Massacre
On November 29, 1864, seven hundred members of the Colorado Territory militia embarked on an attack of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian villages. -
Indian Appropriations Act
The Indian Appropriations Act is the name of several acts passed by the United States Congress. -
Camp Grant, AZ, Apache massacre
The Camp Grant massacre, on April 30, 1871, was an attack on Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches who surrendered to the United States Army at Camp Grant, Arizona. -
The Lakota War
The Great Sioux War of 1876 was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877 involving the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. -
Great Sioux War
Same as Lakota war. From 1876-1877 Custer's Last stand happened here -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. -
"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. -
Capture of Nez Perce
Chief Joseph formally surrendered on October 5, 1877, 2:20 pm, European Americans described him as the principal chief of the Nez Perce and the strategist behind the Nez Perce's skilled fighting retreat. -
Desert Land Act
The Desert Land Act was passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1877, to encourage and promote the economic development of the arid and semiarid public lands of the Western states. -
A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson
A Century of Dishonor is a non-fiction book by Helen Hunt Jackson first published in 1881 that chronicled the experiences of Native Americans in the United States, focusing on injustices. -
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. -
Capture of Geronimo
Geronimo and other Apaches, including the Apache scouts who had helped the army track him down, were sent as prisoners to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio Texas. The Army held them there for about six weeks before they were sent to Fort Pickens, in Pensacola, Florida, and his family was sent to Fort Marion. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
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
A scuffle over Black Coyote's rifle escalated and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry's opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their own fellow soldiers. -
Forest Reserve Act
The Forest Reserve Act of 1891 is a law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain. -
Turner Thesis
It is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. -
Bill Cody's "Wild West Show"
In this year he went to Chicago and performed one of his famous Wild West Shows.
