Treatment of Native Americans

  • War of 1812

    War of 1812
    Indians had a collision with the British which was shown in the war of 1812. This was all a dispute over land.
  • The Reservation System

    White settlers pushed westward. However the reservation system was published to help keep Native Americans off of the land where Europeans wished to settle
  • Indian Removal Act of 1830

    Indian Removal Act of 1830
    This Act allowed the forcing of Indians off of their ancestral lands in order to make room for European settlement.
  • The Gold Rush

    When people found out about the gold in the west they wanted to move westward. This meant even forcing the indians off there land.
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    As white settlers moved west they fought with indian tribes which was a series of wars including the battle of little bighorn. This battle was between US army and the Sioux.
  • Sioux Treaty of 1868

    Sioux Treaty of 1868
    In 1868 there was a conference held at Fort Laramie what is now Wyoming. They signed a treaty this treaty was to bring peace between whites and Sioux who agreed to settle in the Black Hills reservation
  • Assimilation Policies

    Assimilation Policies
    The US government forced Native American children to be sent to "assimilation" boarding schools where they would learn to be "American"
  • The Dawes Act

    This is the Act that authorized the Federal Government to break up tribal lands and partition them into individual plots.
  • The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee

    Wovoka was a shaman of the Paiute tribe said he had a vision. He claimed that God had appeared to him as a Native American and had revealed land to him. Wovoka began a movement called the "Ghost Dance," there mission was to banish all evil in the world.
  • The Wounded Knee Massacre

    The Wounded Knee Massacre
    The US 7th Cavalry regiment surrounded Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee creek on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota. US army soldiers opened fire on the Sioux.