Dakota leaders Medicine Bottle and Sakpe are drugged, kidnapped, and brought to Fort Snelling for...Read More

In 1866, six all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments are created after Congress passes the Army...Read More

Mormon militia murder 16 Paiute men and women and shoot and kill anyone trying to...Read More

The first leprosy patients are forced into quarantine at Kalawao on Moloka’i; approximately 3,000 follow...Read More

Cody kills 4,000 buffalo in an eight-month period with a Remington repeater rifle, earning the...Read More

By 1867, the Yana had suffered numerous massacres and faced extermination. They were a small...Read More

The U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia, but Alaska Natives, who lay claim to all the...Read More

Yavapai County Rangers massacre 23 children, women, and men (likely Hualapai tribal members) in the...Read More

A New York Times article reports that “settlers in a small town in Colorado Territory...Read More

A mob of White settlers massacre 33 Yahi people in a cave near Mill Creek,...Read More

Fifteen sleeping Yavapai are murdered in their camp by a group of teamsters near La...Read More

General William T. Sherman is sent to create a treaty due to the soaring costs...Read More

After surviving the Sand Creek Massacre, Black Kettle takes his remaining band of Southern Cheyenne...Read More

In October 1868, General Sheridan writes to General Sherman that their best hope to control...Read More

U.S. troops massacre over 173 Blackfeet, mostly women, children, and the elderly, as a U.S....Read More

Since the beginning of the Gold Rush, more than 80 percent of California’s Native Americans...Read More

The Arikara, Gros Ventre, and Mandan of the Dakota are forced to and imprisoned at...Read More

Tucson ex-Mayor William Oury leads a group of American and Mexican settlers and allied Pima...Read More

In the Kingsley Cave Massacre, 30 Yahi Indians are massacred in Tehama County, California, leaving...Read More

U.S. troops murder 76 Yavapai women, men, and children in a remote cave in Salt...Read More

The so-called Red River War is a U.S. Army military campaign to forcibly capture and...Read More

Gold is discovered, which leads to thousands of gold miners rushing to the Black Hills,...Read More

The U.S. Army transports 72 Cheyenne, Kiowa, Apache, Comanche, and Caddo Indian prisoners, including some...Read More

Kansas troops trap a group of Cheyenne, massacring 27 men, women, and children on the...Read More

Red Cloud had asked the U.S. government to enforce the treaty and protect the Black...Read More

Satanta, a Kiowa leader who led raids due to food scarcity on the reservation, is...Read More

Under Colonel John Gibbon, U.S. troops attack a Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) village, killing 90, including...Read More

The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia was a boarding school for African Americans...Read More

Under the leadership of Dull Knife, his band of Northern Cheyenne attempt to escape from...Read More