Chronology of American Indian History

belonged to smallpox victims. The disease-infected blankets spread smallpox through the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) and Shawnee vill ...

P for MAY 9, 1763). Their Indian victims, however, are scapegoats for the colonial government—the true target of the Paxton Boys ...

P 1768 The Iroquois cede Shawnee land in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. The British compel the Iroquois to grant them a large tract ...

when Makatchinga, the nephew of the chief of the Peoria, kills him in the village of Cahokia. Rumors fly that the British paid t ...

P three ships in Boston Harbor and dump 10,000 pounds worth of tea into the water below. The protesters are dressed as Mohawk In ...

A total of 13 of Logan’s relatives have been murdered by the English; he sets about killing an equal number of whites. John Conn ...

Tammany Day celebrations, during which the monarchy is parodied in a mock crowning of King Tammany. July 12 The Second Continent ...

P “This dispute was solely occa- sioned by some people, who notwithstanding a law of the King and his wise Men, would not let so ...

When the American Revolution erupted, both the English and the colonists initially sought guaran- tees of neutrality from Indian ...

refused to abandon American lands completely, the Washington administration was hesitant to expend any more of its meager resour ...

1776 July Indians discuss white settlement of the Ohio River valley at the Muscle Shoals Council. Large numbers of Lenni Lenape ...

P November Shawnee war leader Cornstalk is killed. After leading Wyandot, Cayuga, Cherokee, and Shawnee warriors in a summer rai ...

invade the Chickamauga Cherokee’s new homeland and destroy the villages. Summer Seneca and Cayuga Indians aid in raids on Wyomin ...

P important villages. After looting the inhabitants’ homes, the troops set the village ablaze. The next year, what little remain ...

Autumn Ninety Moravian Christian Lenni Lenape (Delaware) are murdered in the Gnaddenhutten Massacre. Mohawk war leader Joseph Br ...

Brantford. Eventually, more than 2,000 Indians, most of whom are from the Iroquois tribes, will move to the Grand River settleme ...

P to whites, the ordinance will accelerate the flow of non-Indians into Indian land in the West. November Mohegan missionary Sam ...

P July 13 The Confederation Congress passes the Northwest Ordinance. With the Northwest Ordinance, the Congress estab- lished by ...

P negotiation of Indian land cessions. Knox is con- cerned that more warfare will break out on the frontier if whites are permit ...

Seneca chief Cornplanter meets with George Washington. Cornplanter and several other Seneca leaders travel to Philadelphia to se ...