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first indian reservation was established
the first Indian reservation in North America was established by the New Jersey Colonial Assembly. -
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Western Indian Dates
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Lewis and Clark expedition
Lewis and Clark expedition with Sacagawea. Lewis and Clark explored the western territory with the help of Sacagawea, an Indian women. -
fetterman massacre
The Sioux Nations are angered as the U.S. Army begins building forts along the Bozeman Trail, an important route to the gold fields of Virginia City; Captain Fetterman and 80 soldiers are killed. -
the Long Walk
Navajos signed a treaty after the Long Walk when Kit Carson rounded up 8,000 Navajos and forced them to walk more than 300 miles to the Bosque Redondo reservation in New Mexico. English officials called it a reservation, but to the conquered and Navajos it was a prison camp. -
Second Treaty of Fort Laramie
Second Treaty of Fort Laramie - This treaty guaranteed the Sioux Indians' rights to the Black Hills of Dakota and gave the Sioux hunting permission beyond reservation boundaries. The treaty also creates the Great Sioux Reservation and agrees that the Sioux do not leave their hunting grounds in Montana and Wyoming territories. The Army agrees to abandon the forts on the Bozeman Trail and the Indians agree to become "civilized." -
Buffalo herds reach low point
Buffalo herds are diminished to a crisis point for Plains Indians. -
cluster meets crazy horse and sitting bull
Custer and the Seventh Cavalry come to the northern plains to guard the surveyers for the Northern Pacific Railroad. He has an encounter with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. -
Custer and seventh cavalry begin to force natives into reservations
George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry begin to forcibly place the Lakota Sioux onto reservations.
Sitting Bull organizes the greatest gathering of Indians on the northern plains. -
nez perce war
Nez Perce War - This war occurred when the U.S. army responded to some American deaths along the Salmon River, said to have been committed by the Nez Perce. To avoid a battle that would have resulted in being forced onto a reservation, about 800 Nez Perce fled 1,500 miles. They were caught 30 miles south of the Canadian border. Survivors were sent to Indian Territory in Oklahoma, despite the promise of the U.S. government to allow them to return to their homeland. -
First indian students forced into education
The first students, a group of 84 Lakota children, arrived at the newly established United States Indian Training and Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a boarding school founded by former Indian-fighter Captain Richard Henry Pratt to remove young Indians from their native culture and refashion them as members of mainstream American society. Over the next two decades, twenty-four more schools on the Carlisle model will be established outside the reservations, along with 81 boarding sch
