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It is responsible for the administration and management of 55,700,00 acres of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives.
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Authorized the President to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi river in exchange for their homelands.
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Silver Ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada.
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It gave someone the ownership of land, at little or no cost. It was signed into law in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln.
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The Sioux had moved into a reservation that had poor land and crops failed. In August 1862 they attacked the government agency.
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Also known as the Sioux Uprising. Was an armed conflict between the U.S. and several bands of the eastern Sioux.
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The cheyenne had agreed by the terms of the Fort Wise Treaty 1861 to move into the Sand Creek Reservation. In 1863, faced with starvation, they began to attack wagon trains and steal food.
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Armed conflict. The war was fought over control of the Powder River Country in north-central Wyoming.
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Indians in Northern Wyoming killed Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman, along with 80 of his soldiers.
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Agreement between the U.S. and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brule bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana.
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Was 1,907 miles long. Connected the Pacific coast with the Eastern coast.
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According to this act, no longer was any group of Indians in the United States recognized as an independent nation by the Federal Government.
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It was an attack on Pinal and Aravapia Apaches who later surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, Arizona.
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Because of the influx of gold miners to the Black Hills of South Dakota, war broke out when the native followers of Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse left there reservations.
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As gold was discoverd in the Black Hills, more people began to intrude onto the Indians land.
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The U.S. 7th cavalry, force of 700 men, suffered a severe defeat. The total U.S. casualty count, was 268 dead, 55 injured.
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It was an armed conflict between several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of the palouse tribe, and bald head, against the US army.
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It encouraged and promoted the economic development of the arid and semiarid public lands of the Western States.
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Five day long gun fight, the largest armed battle of the Lincoln County War. Toke place at Old West at Lincoln, New Mexico.
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First federally funded off-reservation Indian boarding school.
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A book published in 1881 showing the experiences of Native Americans and focusing on injustices.
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He was shot by lawman Pat Garratt.
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In 1886 Geronimo surrendered to the United States. He surendered as a prisoner of war.
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Authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
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A scuffle over Black Coyote's rifles esculated and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry's opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of there own soldiers.
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A law that allowed the President to set aside forest reserves from the land in public domain.
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The shows introduced many western performers and personalities, and a romanticized version of the American Old West, to a wide audience.
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The argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier.
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Allowed private companies in the U.S. to profit from the sales of water.
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A 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in Southeastern Colorado Territory.
