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The Gnadenhutten Massacre
A group of Pennsylvania militiamen slaughtered some 90 unarmed Native Americans at the Moravian mission settlement of Gnadenhutten, Ohio. https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states -
Battle of Tippecanoe
The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought between American soldiers and Native American warriors along the banks of the Keth-tip-pe-can-nunk, a river in the heart of central Indiana. -
The Creek war
was a regional conflict between opposing Native American factions, European powers, and the United States during the early 19th century. https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states -
Mvskoke war of 1813-1814
Was an inter-tribal conflict among Creek Indian factions and also engaged Us militias along with the Spanish and British. They backed up the Indians to help protect Indians from Americas attempt to encroach them on their interests
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Office of Indians Affairs was created
Created in order to resolve the land issue between Indians and white settlers
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The Indian Removal Act
authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Custer's Campaigns
Marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states -
The Dawes Act of 1887
The Dawes Act of 1887 authorized federal governments to separate tribal lands by partitioning them in to separate plots. Only Native Americans who agrees the induvial allotments were permitted to become US citizens.
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The Ghost Dance of 1889
A shaman of the Northern Paiute tribe Wovoka had a vison during a solar eclipse claiming that god had appeared to him in the guise and Native American and showed him a bountiful land of love and peace, Wovoka founded a spiritual movement called the Ghost dance. He prophesied the reuniting of the remaining Indian tribes of the west and southeast and banishment of evil from the world.
Source: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-gilded-age/american-west/a/ghost-dance-and-wounded- -
The massacre at Wounded Knee
The US 7th Cavalry Regiment surrounded an encampment of Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. While attempting to disarm the Sioux, a shot was fired and a scuffle ensued. The US army soldiers opened fire on the Sioux, indiscriminately massacring hundreds of men, women, and children. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-gilded-age/american-west/a/ghost-dance-and-wounded-knee