Native American Timeline

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  • The Gnadenhutten Massacre

    The Gnadenhutten Massacre

    In 1782, a group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians, illustrating the growing contempt for native people. Captain David Williamson ordered the converted Delawares, who had been blamed for attacks on white settlements, to go to the cooper shop two at a time, where militiamen beat them to death with wooden mallets and hatchets.
  • The Creek War

    The Creek War

    The Creek War was a conflict (1813–1814) between American settlers and a faction of the Creek Nation, called the Red Sticks
  • Office of Indian Affairs

    Office of Indian Affairs

    the Office of Indian Affairs was created in order to resolve the land issue. The position of Commissioner of Indian Affairs was established by an act of Congress in 1832, and in 1869
  • The Indian Removal Act

    The Indian Removal Act

    The Indian Removal Act of 1830 institutionalized the practice of forcing Native Americans off of their ancestral lands in order to make way for European settlement.
  • Indian Appropriations Act of 1851

    Indian Appropriations Act of 1851

    Established Indian reservations in the territory that would become the states of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas.
  • The Indian Appropriations Act of 1851,

    The Indian Appropriations Act of 1851,

    also known as the Appropriation Bill for Indian Affairs, authorized the establishment of reservations in Oklahoma and inspired the creation of reservations in other states as well. The US federal government envisioned the reservations as a useful means of keeping Native Americans off of lands that white Americans wished to settle.
  • Dawes Act of 1887

    Dawes Act of 1887

    authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens.
  • The Ghost Dance

    The Ghost Dance

    During a solar eclipse on January 1, 1889, Wovoka, a shaman of the Northern Paiute tribe, had a vision. Claiming that God had appeared to him in the guise of a Native American and had revealed to him a bountiful land of love and peace, Wovoka founded a spiritual movement called the Ghost Dance.
  • The massacre at wounded knee

    The massacre at wounded knee

    A mere two weeks later, on December 29, 1890, the US 7th Cavalry Regiment surrounded an encampment of Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. While attempting to disarm the Sioux, a shot was fired and a scuffle ensued. The US army soldiers opened fire on the Sioux, indiscriminately massacring hundreds of men, women, and children.
  • The Office of Indian Affairs

    The Office of Indian Affairs

    The Office of Indian Affairs was renamed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1947