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A militia from Pennsylvania attacked a settlement of Christian Delaware in eastern Ohio, killing 96 men, women, and children. -
Fought in present-day Indiana, this battle pitted U.S. forces under William Henry Harrison against Native American warriors associated with Tecumseh's confederacy, led by his brother Tenskwatawa -
This conflict, which occurred mainly in modern Alabama, began as a civil war within the Muscogee (Creek) Nation but became a broader war involving U.S. forces led by Andrew Jackson. -
This was the forced removal of the Cherokee people from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory -
This act authorized the creation of Indian reservations in Oklahoma and other states to contain Native American tribes. -
known as the Treaty of Fort Laramie, it established the Great Sioux Reservation and promised the Sioux that the Black Hills would be theirs in perpetuity.
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In this battle, a combined force of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors defeated the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry, killing Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and all of his men.
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The General Allotment Act, as it was also known, authorized the President to divide up communal tribal land into individual allotments in an effort to promote assimilation.
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This act modified the Dawes Act and extended its provisions to the Five Civilized Tribes, diminishing tribal governments and courts.
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This act, also known as the Wheeler-Howard Act, was a major piece of the "Indian New Deal" that reversed the policy of allotment, restored tribal self-government, and encouraged the preservation of Native American culture.