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Bureau of Indian Affairs ~ Boarding Schools
A movement that started in 1860 that allowed the natives to have a residential schools that the children and youth could go to. -
Homestead act
A law that encouraged the western migration and granted people 160 acres of public land in exchange for a small filing fee. In order to own land one had to live there for 5 years to gain ownership. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/homestead.html -
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
A series of acts of the Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad. Authorized issuance of government bonds and land grants to railroad companies. -
Morrill Land- Grant Act 1862
The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds of federal land sales. -
Sand Creek Massacre
The massacre of the Cheyenne indians and Arapaho people by U.S. army during the American Indians wars. -
Medicine Lodge Treaty, Chief Satanta, 1868
Three treaties that tried to bring peace to west by relocating the natives to reservations and Indian territory away from american settlements. This is significant because this was an effort to bring peace to americans and the natives. -
Crazy Horse and Red Cloud, Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868
A treaty that set aside lands west of the Missouri river for Sioux and Arapaho tribes -
Great Sioux War, 1876-1881
A war that was between the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and the United States. The war happened because the U.S wanted to obtain ownership of the Black Hills. -
Little Bighorn
The Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes combined together to defeat the 7th cavalry regiment of the U.S army. -
Chief Joseph 1877
Chief Joseph surrenders to General Nelson A. Miles in the Bear Paw Mountains of Montana. After the U.S broke the land treaty with the Nez Perce they were pushed to Idaho. After finding out 3 young Nez Perce warriors killed a group of white settlers Chief Joseph headed to Montana. Until caught by General Nelson A. Miles. -
Exodusters
A name given to african americans that migrated from states along the mississippi river to Kansas. -
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
Allowed the President of the United States to divide Native American tribal land into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals. Allowing them to transfer traditional systems of land tenure into government-imposed systems of private property by forcing Native Americans to assume a capitalist and proprietary relationship with property that did not previously exist. -
Ghost Dance
A northern american Indian ritual dance that was believed to drive out white people and restore their traditions and lands -
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies. -
Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890
Was a massacre of the Lakota Indians by the U.S army killing several hundreds of people including women and children. The main story told is that they went to strip and disarm the Lakota Indians but, a gun went off and the americans started to fire at the native americans.
