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This made native tribes, legally, wards of the state, and took away their rights as an independent nation.

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The Indian Appropriation Act made it so that no tribe would thereafter be recognized as a sovereign nation and that future treaties would be negotiated not with the tribe itself, but through congress or the President.

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Natives, post-Homestead Act, were forced into smaller and smaller areas after the west is opened up for white settlement. This act marked the beginning of the settlement of Indian lands by non-Indians.

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The Homestead Act made western Indian lands available (and freely given to) white settlers.

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During the Trail of Tears, over 4,000 out of 15,000 Cherokee people died due to hunger, disease, and exhaustion. This horror committed against the Cherokee people perfectly exemplified the atrocities that would spiral out of control from the 1840's onward.

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The Trail of Tears was part of Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830. It was a forced migration, despite Supreme Court rulings that the Cherokee had a right to stay on their tribal lands, to Oklahoma, named so due to it's devastating effects on the people.

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This Act of 1830 was the beginning of harsh anti-native sentiments in the US.

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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 gave the US President power to give unsettled western lands to native tribes in exchange for their tribal lands in the east. In reality, it was less peaceful than many reports make it sound. A handful of tribes went west willingly, but the majority of Native American tribes were forcibly removed.

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Another war, more death. This conflict remains the same as previous European/Native American interactions, but the difference is more significant. The dwindling French presence in North America meant the disappearance of a strong ally in the fight against Britain, as well as the loss of a blockade for British colonization and expansion. This loss of an ally left many natives open to conquest - something that was looming closer and closer on the horizon.

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The French and Indian War (a.k.a. the Seven Years' War) was a series of conflicts between Britain and France for control of North America. The end result of was a British victory in which the Treaty of Paris was signed; France was now required cede the eastern portion of New France to Britain, while also ceding Louisiana to Spain. The name partially obscures the fact that natives actually fought on both sides of the war, though they showed more favor to the French (who were, historically, much kinder and tolerant than Englishmen).

Please note that the official starting date of the war is 1756, but due to prior battles, the date has been extended.

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Arguably, the Pueblo Revolt is one of the most successful revolts in American history. The otherwise unorganized natives transformed into a cohesive group for the first time in European eyes - and they drive out the Spanish, giving hope to others across the country. It was also the first native revolt on such a vast and successful scale.

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In 1980, the Pueblo Revolt (otherwise known as Popé's Rebellion), drove Spaniards out of Arizona, New Mexico. The Pueblo Indians overtook the Spanish people within their territory, and demolished all Catholic images in the process in an effort to reunite with their lost culture. They (Pueblo Indians) lived apart from Europeans for twelve years, until they were reconquered by the Spanish in 1692.

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Though reports vary about the total death toll for the war, we know a minimum 600 natives died. All in all, the Pequot and Powhatan wars began a tradition of unhealthy European/Native American relations. Europeans first began selling or simply enslaving natives with the end of this war, and thus their large population dwindled once again.

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The Pequot War was waged in a period of time within the Powhatan War, though further up north. With native help, the English colonists ended the war quickly, burning the epicenter of Pequot strength. Approximately 600 people in the village perished. Survivors would be killed on sight or captured and enslaved.

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Though not the first war between Native Americans and Europeans, this war caused complete destruction of the Powhatan tribe. By the end of this war, Europeans were pressing hard into native land for farming purposes, and more fighting would follow.

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When European's came into contact with Native Americans, their diseases soon followed. Smallpox, scarlet fever, typhus, whooping cough, chicken pox, measles, influenza, cholera, diphtheria, and two different kinds of plagues killed a huge percentage of natives in early colonization years. The population drastically reduced, Native American's quality of living declined further while their death rate increased.

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This was the first named and documented war between native North Americans and Europeans. The early mistreatment would forewarn Native Americans of the life they would live beside colonizing Europeans and later, Americans.

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From 1492 onward, and as it will be shown on this timeline, the quality of Native American lives declined rapidly.

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Though preceded by a short-lives period of peaceful relations between the Virginia colony and Europeans, the Powhatan Wars caused intermittent fighting for twelve years. By 1944, two Powhatan chiefs had been slaughtered, and the war ended in white victory.

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European colonization of the new world would begin in the early 1600's but as more Easterners came to North America, diseases spread. An estimated ninety percent of natives were killed by European borne diseases by 1650.

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The Tiguex War, the first one named war between invading Europeans and Native Americans, was fought between Tiwa (or Tigua) leader Xauian and Spanish Conquistador Coronado. It ended in a slaughter of the Tiwa people, but they managed to reestablish themselves as a legitimate tribe by the 1600's.

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Weiser, Kathy. “Native American Timeline of Events.” Native American Timeline of Events, Legends
of America, May 2015, www.legendsofamerica.com/na-timeline.html.

Gorin, Thomas. “The Pequot War.” The Society of Colonial Wars , The Connecticut Society, 2011,
colonialwarsct.org/1637.htm.

Countryman, Edward. “The Pueblo Revolt.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,
www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/early-settlements/essays/pueblo-revolt.

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Columbus "found" North America and the natives living there in 1492 while sailing for Spain's monarchy.  Upon meeting the natives, Columbus remarked that, "They could easily be commanded and made to work, to sow and to do whatever might be needed, to build towns and be taught to wear clothes and adopt our ways."