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a conflict between the United States and a faction of the Creek Nation -
created in order to resolve the land issue -
The US government forcibly relocated the Five Civilized Tribes to territories that would become the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, in a death march that became known as the Trail of Tears. -
The Indian reservation system was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle. -
authorized the establishment of reservations in Oklahoma and inspired the creation of reservations in other states as well. The US federal government envisioned the reservations as a useful means of keeping Native Americans off of lands that white Americans wished to settle. -
Indians fighting back to defend their people and protect their homelands provided ample justification for American forces to kill any Indians on the frontier, even peaceful ones. -
This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory -
a law passed in 1887 that divided tribal lands into individual plots and gave them to Native Americans -
a Native American spiritual and cultural movement that involved a ritual dance and a set of beliefs -
Wounded Knee Massacre is the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota, -
which instituted a “New Deal” for Native Americans, authorizing them to reorganize and form their own tribal governments.