The soldiers scalped the victims, then sliced off women's breasts, cut out their vaginas, cut the testicles from the men, cut off fingers, raped dead squaws in relays, and used baby toddlers as target practice.

North American Indian Timeline (1492-1999) 1492. The Army agrees to abandon the forts on the Bozeman Trail and the Indians agree to become "civilized.

Thereafter, the army was instructed to punish Indian raids and to "bring in" any tribes that refused to live on reservations.Nez Perce Treaty - This was the last Indian treaty ratified by the U.S. government. The starting gun sounds at noon, and an estimated 50,000 settlers race across the land; by sunset, all 1.92 million acres have been claimed.Congress established the Oklahoma Territory on unoccupied lands in the Indian Territory, breaking a 60-year-old pledge to preserve this area exclusively for Native Americans forced from their lands in the east. This act altered the Dawes Act by dealing with inheritance and leasing of allotments and with the allotment of land that could be used for irrigated farming, among many other things.Society of American Indians—The Society—the first step in the direction of pan-Indian unity - was established and managed exclusively by American Indians, most of whom were well-known in non-Indian society and well-educated. Each group had a series of leaders, in some cased the leaders inherited their rolls in others they were elected.

Their endeavors encouraged other tribes to begin gaming enterprises on reservations as a step towards greater economic self-sufficiency.Indian Mineral Development Act.

This was the first of many late 20th Century failures to "mainstream" the Indian population.Public Law 83-568 - This Congressional law transferred responsibility for American Indians and Alaskan Natives' health care from the BIA in the Department of Interior, to the Public Health Services within the Department of Health and Human Services.National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) - This organization sought, and still seeks, to resurrect a sense of national pride among young Indian people and to instill an activist message - Indians were no longer to bow their heads in humble obedience to the BIA and other institutions of white society.

July 13, 1866: Colonel Carrington begins building Fort Phil Kearney He halts his column between the forks of the Little Piney and the Big Piney Creeks, in the best hunting grounds of the Plains Indians, and pitches camp. On the way back to Fort Lyon, the soldiers wore the sliced breasts and vaginas atop their hats or stretched over saddlebows.

On September 10, a group of Kiowa and Comanche attacked a military supply caravan along the Washita River, Indian Territory, in present day Oklahoma. The President is empowered to use the Army to enforce the law. Indian agents, who were appointed as the federal government's liaison with tribes, fell under jurisdiction of the War Department.

The U.S. government began moving what it called the "Five Civilized Tribes" of southeast America (Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw) to lands west of the Mississippi River.The Indian Office federal agency was established by the Secretary of War and operated under the administration of the War Department.

Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.When encountered by Spanish explorers in the mid-16th century, the Cherokee possessed a variety of stone The Spanish, French, and English all attempted to colonize parts of the Southeast, including Cherokee territory. The trail for the two is held in Jacksboro, Texas near Fort Richardson. Report of the American Indian Policy Review Commission - The Commission, established in 1975, issued its report in which it called for a firm rejection of assimilationist policies, increased financial assistance to the tribes, and a reaffirmation of the tribes' status as permanent, self-governing institutions.Indian Child Welfare Act - This Congressional Act addressed the widespread practice of transferring the care and custody of Indian children to non-Indians. In New Hampshire and Maine, the Saco Indians continue to raid settlements for another year and a half.