-
Kidnaped a 10 year old girl
Delaware Indians kidnapped 10 year old girl for six years creating fear among white settlers from "Savage" Indians -
Gnadenhutten Massacre
A group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians -
Battle of Tippecanoe
attack to burn Prophetstown, the Indian Capital on the Tippecanoe River, while Tecumseh was away campaigning the Choctaws for more warriors, then attacked again -
Indian Removal Act
Institutionalized the practice of forcing Native Americans off of their ancestral lands in order to make way for European settlement -
Indian Appropriations Act
authorized the establishment of reservations in Oklahoma and inspired the creation of reservations in other states as well -
Sioux Treaty of 1868
The United States recognized the Black Hills as apart of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux People. -
The Dawes Act
authorized federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots -
Ghost Dance
Wovoka, a shaman of the Northern Paiute tribe had a vision the God appeared to him. Wanted to reunite of all the remaining Indian tribes and banishment of all evil from the world. -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
US 7th Cavalry Regiment surrounded and encampment of Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek a shot was fired that then led up to hundreds of men, women, and children being massacred from the tribe. The men in the 7th cavalry where prized with medals of honor. -
Assimilation
Native American were forcibly removed from their families and sent to boarding schools in the east