History Timeline

By drew_carpino

  • Discovery of Gold in Colorado

    The discovery of gold drew in tens of thousands of miners into the west region for settlement. Living conditions on roads of settlement were terrible.

  • Sand Creek Massacre

    General S. R. Curtis sent a telegram to colonel John Chivington that he didn’t want peace with Indians until they suffered more. His troops attacked Cheyenne and Arapaho and killed 150 inhabitants out of 700 mostly women or children.

  • Treaty of Fort Laramie

    Some terms on the treaty were that the government had to build buildings on reservations, but it failed because the Hunkpapa Sioux never signed it and restricted their settlement.

  • Invasion, by gold miners, of the Sioux’s Sacred Black Hills

    The Black Hills were East of the Bozeman Trail where settlers looked for gold. The sitting bull was the leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux who never signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

  • Custer’s Last Stand

    Custer's Last Stand consisted of the battle led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his federal troops against the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Custer and his Cavalry were defeated in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act was an Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations,and it, emphasized severalty. To be Americanized is to be ripped of your previous culture and have American culture be forced into your life. It’s a big deal because Natives were forced to comply and be Americanized.

  • The Ghost Dance Movement and the Battle of Wounded Knee

    The Ghost Dance movement was the spreading of the idea that if Native Americans practiced the Ghost Dance ritual, Native lands and ways of life would be restored. At Wounded Knee, the Seventh Cavalry opened fire and slaughtered 300 unarmed, freezing, and starving Natives, bringing an end to the Indian wars and the Indian era.

  • Part 2

    Indian reservations today are comparable to 3rd world countries based on living conditions. There are 90,000 homeless and 30% of actual housing is overcrowded and only 50% of those are connected to public sewer systems. The U.S. in the late events of the 1800's continually pushed away the Natives and put American lives over the lives of the Native Americans, leading to their corrupt society today including poor housing and social structure.