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In 1824, the Office of Indian Affairs was created in order to resolve the land issue -
This act, passed in 1830, facilitated the forced relocation of Native American tribes. -
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 history of Native Americans in North America dates back thousands of years. Exploration and settlement of the western United States by Americans and Europeans wreaked havoc on the Indian peoples living there In the spring of 1868 a conference was held at Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming, that resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. -
destroyed the reservation system by subdividing tribal lands into individual plots.
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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 Curtis Act of 1898 amended the Dawes Act to apply to the Five Civilized Tribes as well. Their tribal governments were obliterated, their tribal courts were destroyed, and over ninety million acres of their tribal lands were sold off to white Americans -
In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged the passage of the US Indian Reorganization Act, which instituted a “New Deal” for Native Americans. -
Beginning in the 1950s, this policy ended federal support for many tribes and terminated their status as sovereign nations. -
The Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 applies some U.S. Bill of Rights protections to Native American tribes