Chronology of American Indian History

against them, agree to meet with him in council. In the meeting, the general threatens to kill them all if they refuse to give t ...

P “[W]hen she reached the threshold, it was to hear a gunshot, to see Alessandro fall to the ground, to see, in the same second, ...

P “When an Ojibway dies, his body is placed in a grave, gener- ally in a sitting position, facing the west.... After camping out ...

the Canadian government sends federal troops to end the uprising. In a three-day battle, the rebels are defeated. While the Méti ...

March to September Geronimo surrenders to the U.S. Army. Geronimo, exhausted by the military’s efforts to subdue his renegade ba ...

P surrender marks the end of the Apache’s armed re- sistance to reservation life. 1887 The Peabody Museum purchases the Great Se ...

appear in the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Bushotter will become known as the first Lakota ethnographer. Much o ...

P Lower Brulé. The law also opens nine million acres of former reservation land to settlement by whites and allows for remaining ...

P Oklahoma. The federal government immediately begins the process of allotting the reservations in Oklahoma Territory so that an ...

Before daybreak, 39 Indian policemen storm Sitting Bull’s cabin on the Grand River and place him under arrest. As he is being le ...

voluntarily moving closer to the Pine Ridge Agency by late December. Ghost Dancers led by Chief Big Foot are en route to the age ...

An exhausted Indian sits slumped forward from the waist atop his horse, the animal itself so weak that its legs are buckling ben ...

reformers as the only means by which Indians could hold onto their remaining territory, the Allotment policy proved to have the ...

1891 Sophia Alice Callahan’s A Child of the Forest is published. A Child of the Forest, by Sophia Alice Callahan, is possibly th ...

Sami, natives of northern Norway whom Jackson recruits for his enterprise. Despite Jackson’s en- thusiasm and the United States’ ...

P April 13 Civil service requirements are extended to Bureau of Indian Affairs employees. President Benjamin Harrison declares t ...

P 1893 The U.S. government forces an allotment agreement on the Quechan. In negotiations with U.S. government representa- tives, ...

and whites on the other. Whites’ movement west- ward, therefore, is celebrated as inevitable social progress, with superior, civ ...

1896 May 18 Talton v. Mayes exempts tribal governments from upholding the Bill of Rights. In the case of Talton v. Mayes, a Cher ...

P provisions of the General Allotment Act (see entry for FEBRUARY 8, 1887). 1898 Indians perform at the Trans-Mississippi Exposi ...