Native American History

By Deanaday
  • 1978 BCE

    The Indian child welfare act

    Federal law that seeks to keep American Indian children with American Indian families. ICWA governs cases where Indian children face removal from their homes.
  • 1934 BCE

    Indian reorganization act

    Ending of allotment of tribal land and sought to promote self government.
  • 1880 BCE

    Assimilation through education

    Federal Indian policy called for the removal of children from their families and in many cases enrollment in a government run boarding school.
  • 1871 BCE

    Indian appropriation act

    A new era by ending treaties made with tribes as sovereign nations.
  • 1838 BCE

    Trail of tears

    Removal of Native Americans from the southern states to west of the Mississippi.
  • 1831 BCE

    Change the nature of tribal sovereignty

    Change the nature of tribal sovereignty by ruling that Indian tribes were not foreign nations but rather were domestic dependent nations.
  • 1789 BCE

    1789 Indian Commercr Clause Of the Constitution

    Clause is gernerally seen as the principal basis for the federal governments broad power over Native Americans.