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  1. Native American Education Improves Under U.S. Government
    date 1976map District of Columbia, District of Columbiatags Race Relations, Politics, Law, Government, Education, Native-Americans

    The Third Annual Report to the Congress of the United States outlined the needs, concerns, funding, and progresses of the Indian educational system set forth by the government. The National Advisory Council on Indian Education created this report in 1976 in Washington, D.C. The president of the United States appointed this council in order to assist the 570 native groups affected by the regulations...

  2. Three Tribes Confederate for Peace
    date October 21, 1867map SHAWNEE, Kansastags Race Relations, Politics, Law, Government, Civil Rights, Native-Americans

    The chiefs and headmen of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian tribes met with the United States commissioners, such as Nathaniel G. Taylor and William S. Harney, in Kansas to seal their tribes’ fate in America on October 21, 1867. The United States government referred to the Treaty with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache as a peace treaty, but in reality it forced the tribes to conform to the wills...

  3. Immigrants Massacred in the Meadows
    date September 7, 1856 to September 11, 1856map IRON, Utahtags Church/Religious Activity, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Crime/Violence

    A bloody massacre of immigrants on route to California by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) and aided by local Native Americans occurred in Mountain Meadows, Utah. The blame for the massacre originally fell on the Native Americans. The Pittsfield Sun, a Massachusetts newspaper, provided an eyewitness account to the horrific crime and indicted the Mormons as the actual...

  4. The Fate of Native Americans at the Turn of the Century
    date 1900 to 1901map Niagara, New Yorktags Niagara Falls, Reservation, Indian Removal, Native-Americans

    Around the year 1900, when Bertha Wendhausen heard that there was an Indian village nearby in Niagara, she couldn’t wait to go and talk with some of the Indians.  She wanted to learn more about the native people of North America.  So on one Sunday, Bertha and her party drove over to find the village of Niagara.  On the way there they met an Indian child who was sick and dying.  Bertha later wrote...

  5. Tecumseh's Indian Unification Crusade
    date November 1, 1811 to January 31, 1812map WISCONSIN, Wisconsintags Tecumseh, Native-Americans, Indian Removal Act of 1830

    Through the autumn and winter of 1811 and into 1812, Shawnee leader Tecumseh had been on a whirlwind tour to speak to several Indian tribes. From the Eastern Seaboard, to the Old Northwest, to the Southeast, to Canada, Tecumseh sought to convince all Indian tribes to unify against the growing white intrusion into Indian lands. With a fervor born of desperation and necessity, Tecumseh addressed the...

  6. A Writer's Reaction to the Treatment of the Cheorkee People in Georgia
    date January 2, 1830 to December 31, 1830map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Cherokee Indians, Native-Americans, Indian Removal Act of 1830

    January 1830. An impassioned plea has been made by writer William Penn in the January 2nd 1830 edition of   The Religious Intelligencer, for the case of the Cherokee Nation against the state of Georgia. He has expressed a growing outrage and disgust against the way Indians in general have been mistreated by the United States and her citizens. The government is called upon to act with Christian morality...

  7. The Defiance of Chief Black Hawk
    date April 1, 1832map MERCER, Illinoistags Black Hawk War, Native-Americans, Indian Removal Act of 1830

      “I fought hard. But your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter. My warriors fell around me; it began to look dismal,” said Sauk chief Black Hawk upon his surrender to the U.S 6th Infantry in August of 1832. He had fiercely resisted the continuing encroachment of white settlers into his lands and had...

  8. This episode is about an attack of the Seminole Indians on a family on Indian Key, FL.
    date August 17, 1840map MOSQUITO, Floridatags Seminole War,, Native-Americans

    Massacre at Indian Key Doctor Perrine and his family lived on a small island known as Indian Key, which was part of Florida. The Perrine lived on Indian Key during the period of the Seminole war. The Spanish Indians were beginning to become angry with some many people stealing their territory. Unfortunately, Dr. Perrine was attacked by a group of Spanish Indians and was killed. His family...

  9. Forced Immigration
    date February 23, 1853map ORANGE, Floridatags Immigration, Native-Americans

    The increasing immigration of America by Europeans forced the nation to begin expanding the land it needed. The idea of Manifest Destiny was prevalent throughout the citizens of the US, and each wanted his/her piece of land so they could start living out their lives. Florida was one the most lush and fertile areas in the country, and was prime location for more settlers who wanted to acquire property...

  10. Soldiers Perspective in the Seminole War
    date 1840map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Seminole Revolt, Native-Americans

    William Frazer was a practical man who wrote about his interpretations of the Florida army. There were 1200 soldiers accompanying William on his journey to fight in the second Seminole war. The Second Seminole war was being fought over the Indian removal act. The act was to move all of the Indians west of the Mississippi river. Few of the soldiers accompanying William were fierce, and would take the...

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