1862

DATOKA TERRITORY, Territory

Sioux Wars, Sioux, Buffalo, Indians, Native Americans

Amos H. Gottschall traveled across the North American continent four times from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which took him twelve years to do.  During his travels, Gottschall lived with the Indians he came across.  Gottschall wrote all his experiences down, especially with the Sioux from whom he later picked up the Sioux language.  Gottschall became very fascinated with the Indians and decided...

September 5, 1911

Robeson, North Carolina

Normal school, Lumbee, Segregation, Indians

“The State is in earnest in her effort to educate all of her children” declared H. L. Edens on September 5, 1911. The remark was made in an announcement that declared the Indian Normal School of Robeson County, which would later become the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, had been accepted “as a State institution.” In a time in which the South was entrenched deeply in the institution...

1841

CHOCTAW, Mississippi

Indians, Indian Paintings

Land hungry Americans who eyed rich, sparsely settled lands in the west and their attempt to bring civilization and self-governing establishments to Indian land became known as manifest destiny.  By the 1840s, the United States had become expansion-minded, and Americans began to believe they were destined to spread to the pacific.  During this westward expansion, the settlers devastated the Indian...

February 8, 1887

Washington City, District of Columbia

Indians

By the 1870s, prime agricultural land remained in the plains. Many American citizens believed the federal government should free this valuable land from nomadic Indian tribes for white settlers. Other whites approached the situation from a paternalistic perspective and insisted Indians should be assimilated into American society. Named after Senator Henry Dawes of Massachusetts, the Federal Government...