Indidans in the Trans-Mississippi West

By Mud Brighouse Glueck

  • Indian Removal Act

    Policy precedent set by Jackson

  • Gold Rush

  • California gains statehood

  • Northern half of Indian territories not recognized

  • Washington gains statehood

  • Gold discovered on Nez Perce territory

  • Period: to

    Mass slaughter of the Buffaloes

    Due to widespread starvation

  • West opened up to homesteaders (Homestead Act)

  • Sand Creek Massacre

    near annihilation of cheyenne tribe by american troops
  • Period: to

    Great Sioux War

  • Alaska is purchased

  • Medecine Lodge Treaty

    Clumped lots of indians together on one territory causing mass starvation and conflict between tribes. Part of their banishment from their lands (relocation)

  • Treaty of Fort Laramie

    theoretically gave hunting and land rights to the sioux who had won the war

  • Trans-continental railroad completed

  • Board of Indian Commissions Created

    Made in order to mediate between Indians and settlers

  • US government ends treaty system

  • Custer travels to the Black Hills and finds gold

  • WINA

    effort to assimilate 'savage' indians
  • Period: to

    Red River War

    apaches, kiowas, comanches, in southwest

  • Custer's Last stand

    defeat of Custer in black hills. gave emotional ammunition to white side

  • Sioux leadership in war ends

  • Cheif Joseph appeals to congress

  • Period: to

    OIA Civilization program

    to assimilate the indians

  • 'A Centuary of Dishonor' published

    expose on mistreatment of indians by Jackson

  • Geronimo surrenders

  • Dawes severalty Act

    terminated tribal ownership of lands and thereby tribal soverignty, also lead to social reforms- 'kill the indian save the man'

  • Beginning of the Ghost Dance Movement

    spiritual idea that all of the indians would overthrow the whites and unify as a nation

  • Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    killed indian hope, total massacre

  • Curtis Act

    Formally Ended communal ownership of land for indidans

  • Cheif Joseph dies of a 'broken heart'