Chronology of American Indian History

found guilty of murdering two peace commis- sioners six months earlier (see entry for APRIL 11, 1873). The heads of the executed ...

P encourage Indians to assimilate into white society, the act will have little impact because few Indians will opt to take up ho ...

Plains, they are imprisoned thousands of miles from their homelands to keep them from further influ- encing other members of the ...

January 31 Plains Indians refuse to return to their reservations. Despite a federal government ultimatum (see entry for DECEMBER ...

P that a large group of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne “hostiles” are occupying the Rosebud River Valley in Montana and moves his 1,2 ...

success of the play will inspire Cody to launch his fa- mous Wild West Show (see entry for MAY 17, 1883). August 23 Canadian Ind ...

October Sitting Bull’s followers escape to Canada. Wanting to escape warfare but unwilling to be con- fined to a reservation, Si ...

May 6 Crazy Horse surrenders to the U.S. Army. The vigorous military campaign against the La- kota Sioux of the previous winter ...

P fall they are starving from inadequate rations and weakened by a devastating malaria epidemic. In desperation, about 300 flee ...

small disputes and subduing angry and starving In- dians. Indian policemen will also serve as assistants to non-Indian agents by ...

P inspire the establishment of boarding schools as a tool for assimilating Indians into non-Indian society. (See also entry for ...

Perce leader Chief Joseph were sent to a reserva- tion in Indian Territory. The conditions there are miserable. Already ill and ...

property and food stores. Exhausted and hungry, most surrender in early October. Although they claim they are innocent of the mu ...

September 4 Victorio’s men attack a cavalry camp. Led by Victorio (see entry for SEPTEMBER 2, 1877), 60 Apache warriors set upon ...

P The agent there orders his imprisonment, but Big Snake, claiming he has committed no crime, refuses to go to the jail. After h ...

P July 19 Sitting Bull and his followers surrender to the United States. In the early months of the year, many members of Sittin ...

Nation. An angry Isparhechar then joins the sizable faction of Creek traditionalists who demand that the tribal government be di ...

P distributing pamphlets, and hiring a full-time lobbyist to present its views to those in power in Washington, D.C. The IRA’s l ...

P Mormon missionaries arrive among the Catawba. Soon after their arrival on the Catawba’s South Carolina reservation, representa ...

Among the biggest draws of the show are the actual Indians and cowboys Cody hires as perform- ers. The Indians enact scenes that ...