Native american timeline

  • Indian Wars

    Indian Wars

    A series of conflicts between Natives, white settlers, and the US army
  • The reservation system

    The reservation system

    The United States policy of confining Native Americans to specific areas of land which was established to clear land for settlers and assimilate tribes
  • Sioux Treaty of 1868

    Sioux Treaty of 1868

    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
  • Dawes Act of 1887

    Dawes Act of 1887

    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.
  • Little Bighorn

    Little Bighorn

    Battle between the Lakota and other Plains Indians and the 7th Calvary Regiment of the US Army the Natives defeated the US Army
  • The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee

    The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee

    Hundreds of Lakota Indians were killed by the U.S Army in South Dakota, caused by the Lakota doing the banned ghost dance