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Christopher Columbus lands on Caribbean Island after three months. Once he met the Native Americans, he gave them the name of “Indians”. The first day he was there, he ordered six of them to be his servants. -
Sacajawea is Born -
Sacajawea meetsLewis and Clark while 6 months pregnant. The two explorers value her as a translator -
Sacajawea, Charbonneau (her husband), and her baby boy join Lewis and Clark on their voyage/expedition. -
President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian removal act. The native Americans loose their land and move west fog the Mississippi River. -
Only 2,000 of the Native Americans (Cherokees) have left their land. The ones who refused to leave are forced out by gun point by General Winfield Scott and 7,000 troops. Over 5,000 Cherokee died because of this. -
Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act, creating the Indian Reservation System. Native Americans are no longer allowed to leave their reservations without permission. -
The US government and the Sioux sign the treaty of fort Laramie. This treaty makes it so that the black hills in South Dakota is Sioux and Arapaho territory. -
Gold is delivered in the black hills of South Dakota. Therefore, US troops ignore the treaty of Fort Laramie and invite their territory. -
Charles Curtis becomes the first Native American to become US senator -
The Indian Citizenship Act is passed by congress. This granted citizenship to all of the native Americans born in the territorial limits of the country.