Chronology of American Indian History

P people. At a nearby village on Russian River, the soldiers slaughter another 75 Pomo. California legalizes Indian indenture. T ...

to claim free land. Through the Donation Land Act, each male settler is entitled to 320 acres. Soon more than 2 million acres of ...

P “A large company of Americans, Indians and Mexicans, were pres- ent and witnessed the meeting of Lorenzo and his sister.... [N ...

boundaries” within which they “should be compelled constantly to remain until such time as their general improvement and good co ...

September 29 Fort Yuma troops attack the Quechan. Amidst rumors of a large-scale Indian rebellion, troops stationed at Fort Yuma ...

P Mexican-American authors to write their own stories featuring Joaquin Murieta for the popular press. “He dashed along that fea ...

P 1855 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha is published. Among the United States’s most popular writers Henry Wadswort ...

Yakama and whites intensify as a stream of miners begins passing through the Indians’ lands en route to gold fields north of the ...

According to Crawford, the chief is meant to embody “all the despair and profound grief resulting from the conviction of the whi ...

P with the U.S. government. Twenty years later, Lee will later be executed for his part in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. “[T]he ...

P Steptoe’s men (see entry for MAY 17, 1858). At Spokane Plains on September 1 and Four Lakes on September 5, battles end in the ...

the girls, the Paiute in retaliation set fire to a mail station along the trail, killing five whites. To avenge the attack, abou ...

meet with Bascom and his men. Unbeknownst to Cochise, Bascom is convinced that he is responsible for raiding a ranch of a local ...

P “In years long since past, our ancestors met undaunted those who would invade their mountain homes beyond the Mississippi; let ...

Van Dorn’s army confronts Union troops in northwest Arkansas at the Battle of Pea Ridge, the only Civil War battle in which a la ...

violence and organize a full-scale war against their white neighbors. On August 18, the first day of warfare, Little Crow’s men ...

slaughter, the War Department gives Connor the title of brigadier general. Spring Kit Carson’s troops battle the Mescalero Apach ...

P July 3 Rebellion leader Little Crow is murdered. Near Acton, Minnesota, a white farmer comes upon Little Crow, the Dakota lead ...

Mountain), in what is now northwestern North Dakota. There, Dakota Sioux who participated in the Minnesota Uprising (see entry f ...

P southeastern Colorado Territory, Black Kettle of the Southern Cheyenne accompanies Wynkoop to Camp Weld in Denver. There he me ...