Smallpox epidemics (1530s-1880s)
Early explorers and early conquest (1535-1540)
First European settlements and Indian revolt (1565-1598)
First significant English and French settlements (1607-1620)
Pocahontas helps the English settlers (1607)
Massasoit, pilgrims, and the first peace treaty (1621)
Powhatan war in Virginia (1622-1644)
Iroquois wars (1638-1650)
King Philip's war (1675-1676)
Abenaki wars in Maine (1675-1748)
Carolina Indian wars (1711-1716)
Albany Congress and Albany Plan of Union (1754)
French and Indian war (1754-1763)
Royal proclamation and line of 1763
Pontiac's war (1763-1766)
Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768)
Lord Dunmore's war with the Shawnee (1774)
Boston Tea Party, Mohawks, and Tammany (1773)
General John Sullivan's destruction of the Iroquois (1779)
Treaty of Greenville (1786-1795)
Indians and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
American Indians and the U.S. Constitution (1787)
Treaty of New York (1790)
Indian Trade and Intercourse Act(s) (1790-1834)
Treaty of Canandaigua (1794-1795)
Louisiana purchase (1803-1830)
Tenskwatawa and the Battle of Tippecanoe (1811)
Death of Tecumseh and the battle of Thames (October 5, 1813)
Sequoyah's syllabary (1821)
Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823)
Bureau of Indian Affairs created (1824)
Cherokee Phoenix in print (1828-1834)
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Cherokee Trail of Tears (1838-1839)
Seminole Wars of 1817-1858
Stand Watie, Cherokee, fights for the Confederacy in the Civil War (1861-1865)
Dakota Sioux Uprising (1862)
Long walk of the Navajo (1863-1868)
Ely S. Parker's U.S. military career and role as commissioner of Indian affairs (1863-1871)
Sand Creek and the Cheyenne Arapaho War (1864-1865)
Treaties of Medicine Lodge and Fort Laramie (1866-1869)
Indian Appropriation Act of 1871 and president Ulysses S. Grant's "Quaker" peace policy
Wars in the Pacific northwest (1864-1878)
Red River and Apache wars (1874-1886)
Lakota war for the Black Hills (1876-1877)
Women's National Indian Association is founded (1879)
Richard Pratt and the founding of the Carlisle Indian school (1879-1904)
Courts of Indian Offenses (1883) and Indian Major Crimes Act (1885)
General Allotment Act (Dawes Act) (1887)
Wovoka and the Ghost Dance movement (1889)
Indians and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (1893)
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)
Winters doctrine: Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908)
Society of American Indians founded (1911)
Jim Thorpe and the 1912 Olympics
World War I and Indian involvement (1917-1918)
Native American Church is incorporated (1918)
Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
Indian Defense League of America (1926) and the Jay Treaty (1794)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Indian Arts and Crafts Board created (1935)
National Congress of American Indians founded (1944)
Indian Claims Commission is established (1946)
Indian Urban Relocation Program (1948)
Termination Policy (1953)
Indian Health Services Mandate (1955)
American Indian Chicago Conference (AICC) (1961)
National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) founded (1961)
American Indian Movement founded (1968)
Indian Civil Rights Act (1968)
Occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969)
State of Michigan v. William Jondreau (1971)
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971)
Trail of broken treaties (1972)
United States v. Washington State (Boldt decision) (1974)
Leonard Peltier and RESMURS (1975)
Indian Self-Determination Act (1975)
Murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash (1976)
American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) (1978)
Indian Child Welfare Act (1978)
United States v. Michigan (Fox decision) (1979)
California v. Cabazon band of Mission Indians (1987)
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)
Native American Languages Act of 1990.