US government timeline-JB

  • Native American Treatment

    attacks and raids on Indians
  • The reservation system

    As white settlers pushed ever further westward across the American continent.
  • Sioux Treaty

    The history of Native Americans in North America dates back thousands of years.
  • The Dawes Act

    Most white Americans believed they could not live in peace with Native Americans, whom they regarded as “primitive.”
  • The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee

    Native American and had revealed to him a bountiful land of love and peace
  • National Museum of American Indian

    American Indian nations have always fought to defend themselves.
  • Assimilation policies

    the U.S. Army began exhuming the graves