Battles
An armed conflict that pitted several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of the Palouse tribe led by Red Echo (Hahtalekin) and Bald Head (Husishusis Kute), against the United States Army
The Nez Perce War
After the War of 1812 the United States tried to induce the eastern Indians to move west, but by the 1830s force was being used; and the Cherokees and others of the Five Civilized Tribes were moved to this territory, including these states
Indian Territory consisting of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska
The Cherokees, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes were also referred to as this
The Five Civilized Tribes
The strip of land was eventually sold to settlers and the proceeds invested to benefit the Cherokee people
The Cherokee Strip
An American artist and author, whose paintings of Native American scenes constitute an invaluable record of Native American culture in the 19th century
George Catlin
A military operation by the United States government against the Comanche tribe in the newly settled west
The Comanche Campaigns
This deal, in 1803, made Oklahoma U.S. territory, and this treaty, in 1819, with Spain made it the southwestern boundary of the nation
The Louisiana Purchase; Adams-Onis Treaty
People who rushed into Indian Territory before Noon
Sooners
A major hunting ground and sacred territory of the Western Sioux Indians
The Black Hills
US President from 1889 - 1893, allowed the Oklahoma Land Rush to happen, and starting to pass Anti-Native American Laws
Benjamin Harrison
An armed conflict between an alliance of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho peoples against the United States that took place in the Wyoming and Montana territories from 1866 to 1868
Red Cloud's War
The United States expanded this aspect over Indian nations, and it continued to encourage its citizens to move west onto lands once held by Native Americans
It created the Indian reservation system and provided funds to move Indian tribes onto farming reservations and hopefully keep them under control
Indian Appropriations Act
The removal and moving west of many Native American Tribes
Trail Of Tears
A member of the executive council in the Cherokee Nation senate, and served as one of three advisers to Principal Chief Dennis Bushyhead
Ned Christie
A series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 in an alliance of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States
The Great Sioux War
It was difficult for the Native Americans to do this after being Nomads for so long
Build a farm, till the land, care for livestock, and cover the basic necessities of life
Act proposed by Senator Henry L. Dawes, wanted to provide individual distribution to Native Americans
Dawes Act
The major route out of Texas for livestock, used and created by Native Americans
Chisholm Trail
An American military explorer who is noted for his developments in the design of steam locomotives
Stephen H. Long
It marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the Long Plains Indian War, the demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty
Battle of Little Big Horn
On this date, a large area of Oklahoma/Indian Territory was thrown open to settlement, and people lined up at the border to rush in on signal at noon
April 22, 1889
They were strong warriors, the first to acquire horses, and resisted white settlers
The Comanche Tribe
Formally called the No Man’s Land, extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, consisting of Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County, from west to east
The Oklahoma Panhandle
A Quahadi man who, in 1873, led the Comanche people to believe that they should hold a Sun Dance and launch an attack on the whites who are in Indian Territory to win and finally keep them out of the territory once and for all
Ishatai