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- Andrew Jacksons Ironic Relationship with the Indians
October 25, 1814 to November 14, 1814
Florida, Florida
Native-Americans, WarOn October 25, 1814, General Andrew Jackson and over 4,000 troops, including 750 Choctaw and Chickasaw allies set out for Pensacola. Finally reaching the fort on November 6, 1814, Jackson sent a surrender demand to Spanish Governor Gonzalez Manrique, but British marines opened fire on Jackson's army. Jackson next called for an immediate British evacuation of Pensacola. The Spanish governor refused...
- Prairie Farmer Breaks News of Custer Disaster
July 15, 1876 BIG HORN, Montana Government, Native-Americans, Race-Relations, War
"It proved a rash and disastrous venture," noted the Prairie Farmer in criticism of Lieutenant-General George Custer's effort "to divide his regiment into two detachments - one under the command of Major Reno, and the other commanded by himself - make wide detours and flank the enemy." On June 25, 1876, Custer and his 7th U.S. Cavalry came upon a village of combined Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho...
- Presbyterianism and the Creation of Cherokee Sovereignty
July 6, 1831 to March 3, 1832 INDIAN LANDS, Georgia Church/Religious-Activity, Government, Law, Native-Americans
On July 6th, 1831 Presbyterian ministers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Elizur Butler and Samuel Austin Worcester began their 110 mile march to a Georgia penitentiary from the neighboring Cherokee lands in chains. Arrested in New Echota by the Georgia Guard and detained indefinitely, Butler and Worcester were charged with the direct violation of a new Georgia state law...
- Ambush of Round Mountain
November 19, 1861 Unorganized, Oklahoma Crime/Violence, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery, War
Many Indians disagreed to Secession, but not necessarily agree to abolition, either. Families owned slaves and continued to throughout the Civil War. Opoethleyohola, a Muscogee Creek Chief also known as Gouge, wished to remain neutral. Many other neutral Creeks followed him North of Indian Territory, which is now Oklahoma. Colonel Douglas H. Cooper had been persuaded that 'Gouge' was a threat and had...
- The Capture of the Steamship J. R. Williams
June 15, 1864 Unorganized, Oklahoma Crime/Violence, Native-Americans, Science/Technology, War
June 15, 1864, the USA Quartermaster Capt. Greene Durbin sent a "steam ferry boat" with supplies to Fort Gibson; Messrs. McDonald and Fuller, contractors of the Cherokee Nation included "Indian goods" to be distributed amongst those Indians there. They furnished it with military protection of one sergeant and twenty-four privates "under the command of Second Lieut. Horace A. B. Cook," Comp. K, Twelfth...
- Sam Houston: Epic Figure
February 21, 1846 to March 4, 1859 Washington City, District of Columbia Arts/Leisure, Government, Law, Native-Americans, Politics, War
President of Texas, General, or perhaps Senator are the first words to come to mind when discussing Sam Houston. To Mrs. Virginia Clay, wife of Senator Clement Clay of Alabama, the fifty-five year old Houston was a "Senatorial Hercules" and a "roughish old hero". In her book, A Belle of the 50's, Mrs. Clay explains Houston's whittling habit saying that "a seemingly inexhaustible supply of soft wood...
- Missionaries and the Choctaws
1831 INDIAN LANDS, Georgia Church/Religious-Activity, Native-Americans
Mr. Cushman and his fellow missionaries broke ground in the "unbroken wilderness" of Choctaw Nation on October 15, 1827 and on July 31, 1831 he published a letter about his experiences in The Missionary Herald titled, Effects of the Gospel on the People. Upon his arrival in 1827, Cushman found the members of the Choctaw tribe to be entirely heathen and uncivilized in both appearance and practice. He...
- Judge Clayton Removed from Office
December 6, 1831 GWINNETT, Georgia Law, Native-Americans, Politics
Augustin Smith Clayton was a lawyer, congressman, and judge for the state of Georgia. Most of his decisions as a judge in Georgia favored state over federal laws. In 1831, however, Clayton declared unconstitutional a Georgia law that prohibited Indians from digging gold on their own land. After this decision he was not reelected for another term. Clayton was curious about his loss at reelection and...
- Exiled From Florida
1812 to January 25, 1845 Florida, Florida African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery, War
Florida was originally settled by Spaniards, in 1558. With the arrival of the British colonies, the Carolinas attempted to enslave the Indians in and around the Florida and Georgia territories. A boundary was formed between Carolina and Florida, but slaves, Indian and African alike, crossed the boarder into Florida and further into Indian Territory. The numbers of exiled slaves became so great in...
- Speaking from Medicine Lodge: Two Native American Opinions on Removal, White Culture, and Government Relations
October 19, 1867 to October 20, 1867 Unorganized, Kansas Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Diplomacy/International, Education, Government, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Politics, Race-Relations, War
The Treaty of Medicine Lodge is among the last, most famous and most influential of the United States-Native American treaties. The treaty, or rather collective of three treaties signed at Medicine Lodge, Kansas in October of 1867, was a comprehensive peace settlement between the U.S. government and the Plains Nations of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. Major provisions...