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Bureau of indian affairs
Agency of the federal government that manages the 55,700,000 acres of land that is in trust for the united states indians -
indian removal act
The US Government decreed that the Indian tribes could freely inhabit the Great Plains. A Permanent Indian Frontier was established on the eastern edge of the Great Plains -
homested act
This Act offered anyone prepared to settle in the West 160 acres of land for free provided they built a home and farmed the land for five years. -
sand creek massacre
700 men came around a prarie bend and attacked the camps of cheyenne and arapaho
it happened as part of the american indain war
70-163 indians men and women and even children were killed that day. -
fetterman massacure
battle between the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and soldiers of the United States army. All 81 men under the command of Captain William J. Fetterman were killed by the Indians. -
fort lamire treaty
This treaty defined the territory of the Sioux Indians. It gave them the Black Hills of Dakota and the Bighorn mountains -
completetion of the trans contial r.r
The transcontinental railway was completed. A ceremony, known as the 'golden spike ceremony' because a golden spike was used to join the East and West railways, was held at Promontory Point in Utah. -
camp grant az alpache massacure
The Camp Grant massacre was an attack on Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches who surrendered to the United States Army at Camp Grant, Arizona, along the San Pedro River -
indians appropreations act
The Indian Appropriations Act is the name of several acts passed by the United States Congress. -
Battle of little bighorn
The indians fought the us army at the river of bighorn
The sioux indians were fighting for their land and revenge for the attack on there fellow indians
The us army suffered a great defeat losing 268 men in total -
lakota war
The Great Sioux War also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. -
capture of nez perce
armed conflict between indians, against the United States Army. The conflict, fought between June–October 1877, stemmed from the refusal of several bands of the Nez Perce, dubbed "non-treaty Indians", to give up their ancestral lands -
Capture of geronemo
Apache chief Geronimo surrenders to U.S. government troops.
After 30 years of running and fighting -
dawes act
gave the president the right to divide indian lands
it happened in order to give indians us citizenship
forced indains t choose to become citizens or live on reservations -
wounded knee massacre
A group of soldiers opened fire on a group of Sioux at the Pine Ridge reservation in Wounded Knee Creek killing 153 Indian men, women and children. -
forest reserve act
is a law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain. -
turner thesis
sthe argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner that American democracy was formed by the American frontier -
Bill codys wild west show
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman and later created the bill codys wild west show after his fathers death
