Native American timeline

  • Treatment of Native Americans

    By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Indigenous people remained of the estimated 5 million-plus living in North America before European contact.
  • The Gnadenhutten Massacre

    a group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    the rise of the charismatic Shawnee war leader, Tecumseh, and his brother, known as the Prophet, convinced Indians of various tribes that it was in their interest to stop tribal in-fighting and band together to protect their mutual interests.
  • The reservation system

    The reservation system

    The Indian reservation system was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle.
  • Indian removal act

    authorized the president to negotiate treaties to exchange Native American lands east of the Mississippi River for lands in the west
  • Sioux Treaty of 1868

    Sioux Treaty of 1868

    The report and journal of proceedings of the commission appointed to obtain certain concessions from the Sioux Indians
  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots.
  • the Ghost Dance

    the Ghost Dance

    Claiming that God had appeared to him in the guise of a Native American and had revealed to him a bountiful land of love and peace, Wovoka founded a spiritual movement called the Ghost Dance.
  • The massacre at Wounded Knee

    The massacre at Wounded Knee

    the US 7th Cavalry Regiment surrounded an encampment of Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
  • Assimilation

    Native American tribes are still seeking the return of their children.