Native American Timeline

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  • Indian Appropriations Act of 1851

    Indian Appropriations Act of 1851

    Established Indian reservations in the territory that would become the states of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas.
  • Dawes Act of 1887

    Dawes Act of 1887

    authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens.