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Bureau of Indian Affairs - Boarding Schools
An agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the interior. It is responsible for the administration and management of 55,700,000 acres of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians, Indian Tribes, and Alaska Natives to use to make schools for the children. -
Homestead act of 1862
The homestead act provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen who has never borne arms against the U.S Government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. Claimants were required to improve the plot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land. -
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
This act provided Federal government support for the building for the first transcontinental railroad. -
Morrill Land - Grant act of 1862
The Morrill land is a act that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishing colleges specializing in agriculture and the medicanic arts. -
Sand Creek Massacre
A massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29,1864, when a 675- man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry under the command of U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory. -
Exodusters
Exodusters were African American migrants who left the South after the Civil War to settle in the states of Colorado, Kanasa, and Oklahoma. -
Crazy Horse and Red Cloud, Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868
Was a treaty that both Crazy Horse and Red Cloud signed to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory. -
Medicine Lodge Treaty, Chief Satanta, 1868
The name for three treaties signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the Federal government of the United States and southern {laziness Indian tribes in October 1867. It was intended to bring peace to the area by relocating the Native Americans to reservation in Indian Territory and away from European-American settlement. -
Little Big Horn, 1876
was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry of the United States. -
Chief Joseph surrender
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrenders to U.S. General Nelson A. Miles in the Bear Paw mountains of Montana,declaring, “Hear me, my chiefs: My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, Inwill fight no more forever”. -
Great Sioux War, 1876- 1881
Also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred in 1876 and 1877 between the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and the United States. The cause of the war was the desire of the U.S. government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills -
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890
It was a domestic massacre of several hundred Lakota Indians,almost half of whom were women and children, by soldiers of the United States Army.
