Treatment of Native American Timeline

By rbrowngwd51

  • The Gnadenhutten Massacre

    event where 96 unarmed Native Americans, who were turned into Christians prior to this incident, were slaughtered

  • The Reservation System

    Designed to isolate, control, and forcibly relocate Native Americans. Promoted assimilation

  • Indian Removal Act

    U.S. law that authorized the president to negotiate treaties to exchange Native American lands.

  • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

  • Trail of Tears

  • Homestead Act

  • Sioux Treaty of 1868

  • Battle of the Little Bighorn

  • Th Dawes Act

  • The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee