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Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ mission is to enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust of American Indians -
Indian removal act
Passed my congress, to remove territory from the indians on the north side of the missisipi river -
Homestead act
was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government that was 21 years or older or the head of a family could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Little crows war x
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Cheyenne uprising
The Cheyenne had agreed by the terms of the Fort Wise Treaty 1861 to move onto the Sand Creek Reservation -
Sand creek massacre
Part of the american indean wars. Colorado militia attacked the peacful village of Cheyenne -
Red clouds war
armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho on one side and the United States in Wyoming and Montana territories -
Fetterman massacre
was a battle during Red Cloud's War -
fort laramie treaty
was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people -
indian appropriations act
the name of several acts passed by the United States Congress -
The Camp Grant massacre x
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Lakota War
was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877 involving the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne -
Battle of little bighorn
battle that took place between the U.S. Cavalry and northern tribe Indians, including the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho -
Desert land act
passed by the United States Congress, encouraged and promote the economic development of the arid and semiarid public lands of the Western states -
capture of nez perce
was a armed conflict between several gangs of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies -
Pratt Boarding school
Indean industrial school -
A century of dishonor
A book written by Helen Hunt Jackson -
Bill Cody's "west wild show" x
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capture of geronimo
Apaches returned to the U.S. with Lawton and officially surrendered to General Miles at Skeleton Canyon -
Dawes Act
let the president of the united states divide the land of the indeans into sections -
wounded knee massacre x
massacre left 150 Native Americans dead, federal troops and the Sioux -
Forest reserve act
allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public -
Turner thesis
the moving frontier line, formed by the American frontier.
