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In 1787, the United States Constitution was signed, with the purpose to create a powerful national government. A consequence of which lets them negotiate treaties with Native American tribes, and pass laws and acts against Native Americans.

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In 1803, Jefferson purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France, also known as the Louisiana Purchase. The land belonged to the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, Pawnee, Osage, and Comanche people.

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In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected. This was the first president elected by non-elites, which meant that he represented the southerner's ideals and hatred for Natives. This motivated him to take the Cherokee land in Georgia. He was president until 1837.

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In 1837, the Cherokee nation created a national government that signed a constitution declaring sovereignty over their land. This angered the U.S., as Cherokee land overlapped with a lot of Georgia.

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After Andrew Jackson illegally refuses to enforce a Supreme Court Order that was in favor of Cherokee rights, John and Major Ridge, sensing that they could not win in court or in war, signed a treaty giving over Cherokee land.

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In 1838, The U.S. government forcibly removed Cherokee people from their land. They walked 1,000 miles over the course of winter months, and out of the 16,000 people who started on the journey, about 4,000 died.

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As a consequence of the Louisiana purchase, the United States began to intrude on Native land in the west.  On top of building railroads, the Americans began to kill the Native's sacred buffalo. Natives began to practice the Ghost Dance, a nonviolent ritual meant to return the world to a state without Americans in their land. Americans saw this as a threat.

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Sitting Bull was an important tribal leader who was a major part of Native resistance. The Indian Bureau in Washington captured Sitting Bull, and on December 15, 1890, he was killed by one of his captors. The murder of this important leader opened the door for even more violence against the Natives from Americans.

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December 29, 1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre

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December 29, 1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre

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After the death of Sitting Bull, Troops killed almost 300 Sioux people including Big Foot, as well as twenty-five of their fellow soldiers

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Through the power of the constitution, the national government passed the Dawes act. The Dawes Act gave power to the government to take Native land, divide it, and “allot” it however they wanted. They did this to assimilate them into the capitalist way of life, which private property is the foundation of.

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With the Burke Act, the Government gave themselves the right to take land from “incompetent” and “incapable” native landowners. Some of the lands they allocated were intentionally given to children, who were not mature enough to be considered "competent" landowners. This was a sneaky way to take land by giving themselves the right to divide and allot land, giving a sizeable portion of that to people under 18, then taking land from people not seen as "competent" in their eyes.

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Allotment finally ends in 1934. The catastrophe Americans inflicted on Native land was massive, with settlers outnumbering Indigenous people in native land by 1907.