Native American Timeline

  • navajo and apache wars

    navajo and apache wars
    The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States and Apaches fought in the Southwest from 1849 to 1886, though other minor hostilities continued until as late as 1924
  • sand creek massacre

    sand creek massacre
    The Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians)
  • red cloud's war

    red cloud's war
    Red Cloud's War (also referred to as the Bozeman War or the Powder River War) was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho and the United States in Wyoming and Montana territories from 1866 to 1868.
  • red river war

    The campaign called the Red River War was the last major conflict between the U.S. Army and the southern Plains Indians.
  • little big horn

    little big horn
    The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans
  • a century of dishonor--helen hunt jackson

    a century of dishonor--helen hunt jackson
    Conflict between whites and Indians began with the first colonial landings and continued undiminished into the late nineteenth century.
  • dawes severalty act

    dawes severalty act
    The Dawes Act (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887)
  • battle of wounded knee

    battle of wounded knee
    The Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 (which was originally referred to by the United States army