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Events relating to the american indians
Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, leads an uprising of the Indian tribes in an attempt to drive the British east of the Appalachians
An Indian raid on an American military camp beside the Maumee river leaves more than 600 US soldiers dead
Indian tribes, at peace talks in Fort Greenville, cede much of Ohio to the USA
After the Fort Greenville concessions, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh emerges as a champion of Indian territorial rights
George Washington selects the Cherokee Indians for an experiment in adaptation to 'civilization'
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa set up a permanent base in Indiana, calling it Prophetstown
The Treaty of Fort Wayne is the climax of seven years in which William Henry Harrison has acquired millions of acres from the American Indians
Andrew Jackson, attacking settlements in Spanish Florida, launches the first of three wars against the Seminole Indians
The spoken language of the Cherokee Indians is captured in written form – an achievement traditionally attributed to Sequoyah
The Cherokees adopt an American-style constitution and publish the first American-Indian newspaper
The state government of Georgia declares that it is illegal for for the Cherokees to hold political assemblies
Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, to push the American Indian tribes west of the Mississippi
Five American Indian tribes are forcibly escorted to a new Indian Territory west of the Mississippi in the process that becomes known as the Great Removal
Longfellow publishes his American Indian epic, The Song of Hiawatha, in an irresistibly catchy metre
The Plains Indians are threatened by settlers pressing west, building railways and slaughtering buffalo
George Custer leads federal troops in the massacre of more than 100 American Indians, on an official reservation beside the Washita river
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad cuts through the territory reserved for American Indians, bringing hordes of 'boomers'
The Nez Percé Indians are led by Chief Joseph in a war against the US army
The Dawes Severalty Act deprives American Indians of their tribal lands, giving each instead an allotment of up to 160 acres
An American Indian visionary, Wovoka, launches a new religion that will bring the dead back to life, calling it the Ghost Dance
The first Land Run into Oklahoma has settlers galloping in from noon to claim territory previously reserved for American Indians
Hundreds of Sioux Indians are killed by US troops in a massacre at Wounded Knee Creek
A midwest region, including what remains of the reserved Indian Territory, is included in Oklahoma when it joins the Union as the 46th state
Archaeologists, excavating the bison remains at Folsom, find an ancient spear point embedded in the skeleton - first proof of the Folsom culture
An American Indian teenager, Ridgely Whiteman, finds the remains of a butchered mammoth near Clovis in New Mexico - first evidence of the Clovis culture
