Treatment of na

Treatment of Native Americans Timeline

  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    A law signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28 1830 that authorized the president to grant land west of the Mississippi River to NA tribes in exchange for their ancestral homelands within existing state borders
  • Indian Relocation Act

    Indian Relocation Act

    Encourages NA's to move from reservations to cities to assimilate into general society
  • Reservation System

    Reservation System

    US government policy that forced NA's onto designated tracts of land, known as reservations, to make way for white settlers
  • Sioux Treaty

    Sioux Treaty

    Ended Red Cloud's War and established the Great Sioux Reservation, which included the sacred Black Hills
  • Assimilation Policies

    Assimilation Policies

    Government-mandated efforts to erase Indigenous cultures and force Native people to adopt European-American culture, through the boarding schools and the division of tribal lands
  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act

    Authorized the U.S. government to break up tribal lands by granting individual plots to Native Americans, a policy intended to force assimilation by promoting private land ownership and farming
  • The Ghost Dance

    The Ghost Dance

    A spiritual and political movement among NA's in the late 18th century, based on Paiute prophet named Wovoka who had a vision that the spiritual dance would bring back dead ancestors, restore the buffalo, and cause white settlers to disappear
  • Wounded Knee Massacre

    Wounded Knee Massacre

    The US Army killed 100s of Lakota people
  • Indian Reorganization Act

    Indian Reorganization Act

    A landmark US federal law that ended the policy of allotting reservation land to individuals and promoted tribal self-government
  • Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

    Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

    Gives NA tribes greater autonomy by allowing them to administer federal programs and services that affect their communities