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A group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians -
Shawnee war leader Tecumseh and his brother convinced Indians of various tribes that it was in their interest to stop tribal in-fighting and band together to protect their mutual interests. later William Henry Harrison decided in 1811 to attack and burn Prophetstown while Tecumseh was away campaigning the Choctaws for more warriors, incited the Shawnee leader to attack again. -
the war of 1812 bled into the creek war. it was a inter-tribal conflict among Creek Indian factions. the war also engaged U.S. militias, along with the British and Spanish, who backed the Indians. Mvskoke Creek women killed their children so they would not see the soldiers butcher them.
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The U.S. army removed 60,000 Natives(Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee and others) from the east for new territory west of Mississippi. Many died along the way making the trail of tears
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Authorized the U.S. gov't to establish Indian reservations. -
Followed the Dakota war 303 Dakota men were sentenced to death, but President Abraham Lincoln commuted most sentences leaving 38 men for execution. The 38 were buried in a shallow grave along the Minnesota River. Physicians dug up most of the bodies to use as medical cadavers. -
John Chivington led a surprise attack on peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos on their reservation at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. He had 700 men and 160 Natives were massacred mostly women and children. -
an agreement signed by the U.S. gov't and the Sioux Nation making the great Sioux reservation in 1868. Gold was found on land leading to the gov't taking the land in 1877 -
Anti-Indian rose as Ghost Dance spiritual movement emerged spreading to two dozen tribes across 16 states, and threatening efforts to culturally assimilate tribal peoples. In December 1890 the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry massacred 150 to 200 ghost dancers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.