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Two female Wichita people in summer dress in 1870 An artist's 2016 depiction of Spiro Mounds, a Caddoan Mississippian site, as seen from the west A Caddo village near Anadarko, Oklahoma in the 1870s. Indian Territory marks the confluence of the Southern Plains and Southeastern Woodlands cultural regions.
An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S. state government in which it is located.
The lands were located in western Indian Territory south of the Cherokee Outlet and north of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Indian Reservation. [2] However, a portion of it was split off later to form the Caddo-Wichita-Delaware Indian Reservation. [3] The area occupied by the tribes is now referred to as the Cheyenne-Arapaho Oklahoma Tribal ...
Indian wars per year jumped up to 32 in 1876 and remained at 43 in 1877. [23] One of the highest casualty Indian battles that took place in American history was at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. [38] Indian war casualties in Montana went from 5 in 1875, to 613 in 1876 and 436 in 1877. [39]
Federal Indian policy establishes the relationship between the United States ... (1789–1828), removal and reservations (1829–1886), assimilation (1887 ...
The Indian Appropriations Act is the name of several acts passed by the United States Congress. A considerable number of acts were passed under the same name throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the most notable landmark acts consist of the Appropriation Bill for Indian Affairs of 1851 [1] and the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act.
Kit Carson, Indian agent to the Ute Indians and the Jicarilla Apaches, 1850s [9] Leander Clark, Indian agent for the Sac and Fox in Iowa beginning in 1866; John Clum, Indian agent for the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in the Arizona Territory; John Coffee, U.S. commissioner to negotiate what became the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek [10]
The tension between Sitting Bull and Agent McLaughlin increased, and each became warier of the other over several issues including division and sale of parts of the Great Sioux Reservation. [58] In 1889, Indian Rights Activist Caroline Weldon from Brooklyn, New York City, a member of the National Indian Defense Association (NIDA), reached out ...