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An agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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Congress passed this law when Andrew Jackson was president, that would have the Indian tribes moved to land west of the Mississippi in exchange for their homelands.
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The richest silver deposit found in America. Found in Nevada by two brothers, Evan and Hosea Grosh.
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Armed conflicts between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho in Wyoming and Montana territories.
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Gave 160 ancres of land to any citizen that had ever fought for the Americas.
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The land the government gave to the Cheyenne Indians was poor. They faced starvation and began to attack wagon trains and steal food.
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The United States army attacked Shoshone Indians gathered at the Bear River.
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An armed force led by Colonel Chivington attacked the Black Kettle's Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek because of previous attacks on Americans.
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Cowboys herded and moved cattle from one place to another.
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Also known as the Battle of the Hundred Slain, was a battle during the Red Cloud's war, between the Lokoto, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and soldiers of the United States army.
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The treaty was to bring peace between the whites and Sioux, as long as the Sioux would move to the Black Hills reservation.
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A golden spike was driven in at Promontory, Utah as a symbol of the completion of the railroad.
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Ends the treatment of Indians as sovereign nations. Also a step towards the end of the tribal structure of Native Americans.
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8 men and 110 women and children were kiled within 30 minutes. 28 Arivaipa Apache papoose were captured for child slave trade.
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A series of battles between the Sioux and Americans over land.
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The Sioux people led by Little Crow, fought for food because they were suffering from starvation.
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"Custer's Last Stand" battle between the U.S. Cavalry and the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho Indians.
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The U.S. wanted to fight to capture the Nez Perce Indians.
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To promote the development of land in the West. People would get 640 for 25 cents per ancre as long as they promiced to irrigate the land in the next 3 years.
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An army officer, Richard H. Pratt, opened a boarding school for Indians to teach them the American culture.
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She showed all the unfair inequalities towards the Native Americans.
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Prohibited all of the immigration of Chinese labor workers.
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A show about life in the West.
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After 30 years of fightng to protect his land he surrenders himself to the U.S. government troops.
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Act that restricted some of the practices of the Church of Jesus.
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This act authorized the president of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotements for individual Indians.
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Soldiers fire at a group of Sioux at the Pine Ridge reservation in Wounded Knee Creek.
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Allowed the president to set aside forest reserves from public land.
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Argument made by Frederick Jackson Turner that started the American democracy was formed by the American frontier.
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This act allowed private companies to use irrigation systems in the west and make profit from the sale of water.
