In 1851, the US government passed the Indian Appropriations Act, creating reservation lands for Native Americans. For decades prior, the US government had forcefully moved and abused Native ...

The Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 authorized the creation of Indian areas in what is now Oklahoma. Native Americans were again forced to move to even smaller parcels of land now called ...

Indian Treaties: The federal government began signing treaties with Indian tribes in the 1770s. It stopped after the Indian Appropriations Act in 1871, when federal lawmakers ended the right of ...

The practice of treating Indian tribes as sovereign nations was ended in 1871 when Congress approved the Indian Appropriations Act, which made them individuals and legally designated "wards" of ...

1871: The Indian Appropriations Act ends the right of the president and Senate to deal with Indian tribes through treaties. 1873: A presidential executive order clarifies the scope of the present ...