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A series of conflicts between Natives, white settlers, and the US army -
The United States policy of confining Native Americans to specific areas of land which was established to clear land for settlers and assimilate tribes -
Authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes for their removal from ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River to territory in the west
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An agreement between the U.S. government and the Sioux and Arapaho nations that established the Great Sioux Reservation in what is now South Dakota and recognized the sacred Black Hills as Sioux territory -
a U.S. federal law that authorized the president to survey and divide tribal communal lands into individual plots, with the goal of assimilating Native Americans into mainstream U.S. society by promoting private land ownership and farming. -
Battle between the Lakota and other Plains Indians and the 7th Calvary Regiment of the US Army the Natives defeated the US Army -
Hundreds of Lakota Indians were killed by the U.S Army in South Dakota, caused by the Lakota doing the banned ghost dance -
Granted U.S. citizenship to all non-citizen Native Americans born within the territorial United States
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established a set of individual rights for Native Americans under tribal governments
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United States law that acknowledges and protects the rights of American Indians to practice their traditional religions.