On May 28, Andrew Jackson signs the law authorizing the President to “negotiate” with southern...Read More

In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Chief Justice John Marshall finds that the Cherokee Nation is...Read More

The Choctaw are the first to sign a removal treaty, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit...Read More

In 1832, under orders by President Jackson to economize, rations are decreased, and transportation is...Read More

The third of three court cases (the “Marshall Trilogy”) that become the foundation of American...Read More

The newly independent Mexican government frees enslaved Chumash Indians in California (the Chumash had already...Read More

John Ridge, a Cherokee leader representing only a handful of Cherokees, negotiates a treaty selling...Read More

By 1850, more than 46,000 Native people are removed from their lands and relocated to...Read More

Congressional legislation states that land proceeds negotiated through treaty are to be held “in trust”...Read More

By the 1840s, grave robbing and beheading Indians at battle/massacre sites are in full swing....Read More

Newspaper editor John L. O’Sullivan first uses the phrase “manifest destiny” in an 1845 editorial,...Read More

U.S. acquires Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, over half of Colorado, and parts...Read More

With the signing of the Treaty of Hidalgo, Indian nations in the Southwest must contend...Read More

The Gold Rush stimulates a mad influx of settlers to western territories. The U.S. Cavalry...Read More

He gives in to plantation settler advisers about the division of lands (called Mahele). This...Read More

The federal government moves the Office of Indian Affairs out of the War Department, which...Read More