Chronology of American Indian History

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only 21 casualties. St. Clair’s disastrous campaign is one of the worst defeats ever suffered by American soldiers in an Indian ...

P recommended that the rebels sue for peace but was unable to persuade his warriors. The army destroys the fields at the Indians ...

P treaty to provide for educational assistance to an In- dian tribe. In the 19th century, such provisions will become commonplac ...

P operates its own trading houses (known as “fac- tories”). These trading houses are to be staffed by federal employees and are ...

1800 January 18 Congress passes the Peace Preservation Act. Intended to stop European settlers from encouraging Indians to war a ...

Indian residents consider their own. The Indians’ view is upheld by international law. Technically, the United States purchased ...

P April Sacagawea (Sacajawea) joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Spending the winter near the villages of the Hidatsa on the ...

P found the village of Prophet’s Town near the conflu- ence of the Wabash River and Tippecanoe Creek in Indiana Territory. Thous ...

P their case to court, claiming that their contract for the sale had been violated. After 15 years of litigation, the Supreme Co ...

Town (see entry for 1808). Believing Tecumseh’s foot caused the quake, many Creek become fanat- ical in their faith in his confe ...

the fort commander, Major Daniel Beasley, that they have seen Indians hiding in the tall grass out- side the post, but Beasley i ...

P claim that he shot the great Shawnee leader. In 1836 Johnson will lead a successful vice-presidential cam- paign with the slog ...

entry for DECEMBER 24, 1814), a British army com- manded by General Sir Edward Pakenham attacks American forces led by General A ...

P 1817 The “Old Settler” Cherokee begin relocating to the West. Frustrated by the harassment of white settlers, thousands of Che ...

there are few complaints about this violation of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state, perhaps because of the fu ...

P 1822 The United States ends the factory system. Congress abolishes the Office of Indian Trade (see entry for 1806) and the fac ...

being taken as a captive in southwestern Penn- sylvania during the French and Indian War (see entry for JULY 4, 1754). Adopted i ...

P 1826 James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans is published. Based on the Battle of Lake George in the French and India ...

the town of Prairie du Chien on June 26. Three days later, the warriors strike a boat crew on the Mississippi and murder two mor ...