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Treatment of Native Americans Timeline T.M.

  • Reservation System

    Reservation System
    Placed Native Americans in reservations away from U.S states so they could be colonized.
  • Sioux Treaty

    Sioux Treaty
    A congressional committee starts a study of the Indian uprisings and wars in the West.
  • Sioux Treaty

    Sioux Treaty
    Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes is released.
  • Black Hills Reservation Plan

    Black Hills Reservation Plan
    A conference was held at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, which resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. The treaty was made for peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush
    General George A. Custer leads an expedition into the Black Hills accompanied by miners who were seeking gold.
  • Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn
    Custer encounters the encampment of Sioux and Cheyenne at the Little Bighorn River while leading his detachment. Custer's detachment is annihilated.
  • Black Hills

    Black Hills
    Government confiscates Sioux land.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    Act authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots.
  • Signing of The Dawes Act

    Signing of The Dawes Act
    The act is signed by US President Grover Cleveland.
  • The Ghost Dance

    The Ghost Dance
    A solar eclipse occurs in Wovoka, enabling a shaman of the Northern Paiute tribe to have a vision. The shaman claims that God had appeared to him in the guise of a Native American and had revealed to him a bountiful land of love and peace, Wovoka then creates the movement called the Ghost Dance. He prophesied the remaining Indian tribes of the West and Southwest reuniting and the cleansing of all evil from the world.
  • Tribal Death

    Tribal Death
    Police officers who feared that Sitting Bull was going to flee the reservation with adherents of the Ghost Dance, so they shot and killed Sitting Bull.
  • Curtis Act

    Curtis Act
    Doubled down on the Dawes Act, making tribal governments weak to the rule of US.