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The United States government forcibly removed the southeastern Native Americans from their homelands and relocated them on lands in Indian Territory.
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Authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. -
The Treaty of New Echota was a treaty signed on December 29, 1835, in New Echota, Georgia, by officials of the United States government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction, the Treaty Party. -
The Indian reservation system was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle. -
In 1864, the U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing about 160 men, women, and children, including elderly or infirm. -
A treaty between the US and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation. -
The engagement was one in a series of battles and negotiations between Plains Indians and U.S. forces over control of Western territory, collectively known as the Sioux Wars. In less than an hour, the Sioux and Cheyenne had won the Battle of the Little Bighorn, killing Custer and every one of his men
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The Dawes Act of 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. -
Ghost dances- ritual performed on a solar eclipse
Wounded knee- a battle between Americans and Natives, killing almost 300 natives