Native American timeline

General Custer dies in the Battle of Big Horn with the Lakota Sioux.

1876

I think this is an important event because General George Armstrong Custer and his troops got killed.

Chief Sitting Bulls surrenders to U.S. troops.

1881

Because he was send to prison and I think it’s interesting.

Over 300 Lakota Sioux die in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

1890

Very many people died and it was mostly women and children.

Robert Latham Owen becomes the first Native American senator.

1907

I think it’s big because it was the first time someone became a Native American senator.

Jim Thorpe is named the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century.

1950

I think it’s important because I love sports and I know that many people also do that.

The first Indian casino opens in Florida.

1979

I think it’s important because casinos has been very big.