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Is responsible for administration and management of 55,700,000 acres of land held in trust by the U.S. for the Native Americans.
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Authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory.
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Allocated funds to move western tribes onto reservations.
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Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant.
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Armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux.
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The United States Army attacked Shoshone gathered at the confluence of the Bear River and Beaver Creek.
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Faced with starvation, the Indians began to attack wagon trains and steal food.
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700 men of the Colorado Territory militia destroyed the village of Cheyenne and Arapho. Killing an estimated 70 to 163 indians.
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20 million cattle were herded from Texas to railheads in Kansas for shipments to stockyards in Chicago and points east.
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The war was fought over control of the Powder River Country in north-central Wyoming.
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At the time it was the worst military disaster ever suffered by the U.S. on the Great Plains.
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Guaranteed the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.
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With the ceremonial driving of the "Last Spike" with a silver hammer at Promontory Summit, the road established a mechanized transcontinental transportation network
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Was an attack on Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches who surrendered to the United States Army at Camp Grant, Arizona, along the San Pedro River.
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Was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877 involving the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States.
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The Indian's last effort to preserve their way of life.
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The ace of clubs; the two black eights, clubs and spades, and the queen of hearts with a small drop of Hickock's blood on it.
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To encourage and promote the economic development of the arid and semiarid public lands of the Western states.
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Chief Joseph formally surrenderd his forces, effectively ending the Nez Perce war.
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The first all Indian school.
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Told how the federal government forcibly removed his tribe from its ancestral homeland in the wake of the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation.
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It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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Launched a genre of outdoor entertainment that thrived for three decades and survived for almost three more.
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The Apaches were exhausted and outnumbered. Geronimo surrenered, making him the last warrior to give in to the U.S.
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Allowed the president to survey and divide tribal land into allotments for individual Indians.
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Focused on restricting some practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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The final battle between the federal troops and Sioux Indians. About 150 to 200 Indians were killed.
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Law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain.
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The argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner, that American democracy was formed by the American frontier.
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Allowed private companies in the U.S. to erect irrigation systems in the western semi-arid states, and profit from the sales of water.
