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 * 1763:** British and their Indians allies defeated the French.


 * 1830:** Jackson signed the Indian Removal act. It granted the right for whites to force south-eastern Indians into the west.


 * 1848-1861:** When gold was discovered in California 100,000 Indians lived there by 1861 the population of Native Americans was 30,000.


 * 1862:** The santee, or Dakota, Sioux in Minnesota faces starvation.


 * 1862:** The Dakota Conflict Trial took place


 * 1866:** Sioux warriors Red Cloud went to fort Laramie to protest a trail that went through their land called the Bozeman trail. (It was created because of a gold strike.) This trail went through land that was given to them through land that was given to them by treaty in which they used it for hunting.


 * 1872:** A cavalry lead by Captain James Jackson tried to force the Modoc tribe back onto reservations. The army hung Captain Jack and the remaining Modoc Indians reservation.


 * 1875:** Reservation officers told all Sioux to come into the reservations by the end of January 1876, they must stay there too.


 * 1876:** Custer's regiment joined troops organized to force the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians onto reservations. Commander of this was general Alfred H. Terry.


 * 1876:** Gall and other Hunkpapa fled to Canada to avoid being put on a reservation.


 * 1876:** Battle of Little Bighorn took place.


 * 1877:** Crazy Horse died.


 * 1877:** The sioux defeat took place. After, the United States took over Black Hills.


 * 1878:** John Lorenzo Hubble established the Hubble Trading Post that linked Native Americans to the whites through trading products and goods. Hubble Trading Post is located in the Navajo reservation in Ganado, Arizona.


 * 1887:** Congress passed legislation to break up tribal land.


 * 1890:** U.S troops (the 7th Cavalry) tried to disarm the Sioux, guns went off, and they started to fight. This was the morning after the 7th cavalry met them and told them that they could camp on Wounded Knee Creek, the reservation, because 200 people were killed in the Sioux Tribe by soldiers including Big Foot.


 * 1894:** Gall died. He was the leader of Hunkpapa band and of Teton Sioux Indians.


 * 1924:** Indians recived citizenship in the United States.


 * 1968:** American Indian movment began.


 * 1978:** Congess decided Inidans have free right to religion.

The wars/conflicts between Indians and Europeans lasted between 1500's-1890's.

Between 1780 and 1890 Americans killed hundred of thousands of Indians they destroyed tribe after tribe.