Native American Timeline

I pledge to not spread false history that we were fed our entire schooling lives. It is time we have true, unedited, and untampered history of our country. This timeline will express the true history of before and after the discovery of the "New World."

Pre contact

• Before the beginning of colonization, 1492, the Indigenous People of the land now known as the Americas, there were an estimated 1,500,000-18,000,000 people in North America itself.
• The Natives were highly advanced compared to their European counterparts although they are often thought as being "savage."
• Records show that the Incan and Mayan had successfully preformed a type for brain surgery called trephination.
• The Natives were flourishing before European Christopher Columbus accidentally crossed the Atlantic and landed in the land now known as the Americas.
• For example, the Aztecs were obsessed with cleanliness and bathed everyday with soap, burned incense, used deodorants, and chewed mint leaves as breath mints where as Spaniards brushed their teeth with urine and maybe bathed once every few months.
• Natives used the land to live without draining it of the resources and used every part of the animal they had hunted.

1492-1700

• In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas.
• Sources show that the first day he had landed he had thought the Natives would make "fine servants." He immediately took six to ten Natives, the number varies from resource to resource, between the ages 10 and 25.
• After spending five months exploring the Caribbean and stealing from the natives, gold, riches animals and even people, he had returned to Spain to show the King what he had found and was funded to further explore and steal from the Natives.
• On April 1513, Spanish Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon lands on what is now Florida, looking for a so called "Fountain of Youth" on and island after colonizing Hispaniola, now known as Cuba. It was not the island he sought for and Ponce de Leon went back to colonize the area but was fatally wounded in 1521 after a breakout in fighting between the Spanish and the Natives.
• In 1521, the Aztec Empire fell and in 1532, the Incan Empire fell due to the relentless conquest of the Spaniards who wanted all of the gold and silver and valuables that the Empires had to offer.
• After conquering Mexico and Peru, the Spanish began to settle in the area that is now Florida in 1565, destruction of whole communities who resisted had followed.
• In 1598, the Spanish settled near the area of El Paso, Texas.
• The French colonized the area that is now Quebec in 1608. The Natives in that are had helped them survive the cold climate as well as taught them how to farm. Marriages between Native women and French men were common to secure alliances.
• In the 1600's, England joined colonization of the Americas. After Chesapeake Bay was established in 1607, number of colonies were as well. They included Jamestown in 1607, Plymouth in 1620, Boston in 1630, St. Mary's City in 1634, New York in 1664, and Philidelphia in 1681.
• Throughout the colonization of the East coast, the Natives had helped the colonizers survive before they began to break out in fighting as the colonizers no longer needed them, resulting of the mass genocide of the Natives.

1701-1900

• In 1704, the Tribes Abenaki, Kanienkehaka, and Wyandot as well as a French militia massacred 56 civilians and took dozens in hostage in retaliation of Queen Anne and her attempt to colonize the entire continent.
• In 1711, as an attempt to drive out colonists out of their lands, the Tuscarora tribe attacked white settlements which became a war known as the Tuscarora War. After two yaer of fighting, this led to a colonist victory.
• In 1715 to 1718, the Yamasee launched a war in attempt to drive former allies out of their territory which led to almost an entire settlement to be killed. The outcome was a colonial win.
• In 1774, the Shawnee and Mingo tribes raided traders and settlers in the Ohio Valley. This led Governor Dunmore to send in 3,000 soldiers and resulted in a Native American lost.
• On March 8, 1782, the Lenape Tribe was mostly killed by the Pennsylvania militia with strikes to the head with a hammer. This was know as the Gnadenhutten Massacre.
• From 1811 to 1847, there had been a series of massacres and wars caused by the stolen land of the natives and their attempt to regain it, most attempts had failed, leading in a white victory.
• From 1850-51, the Mariposa War was between the Native American tribes, fighting the miners who rushed to California after the discovery of gold.
• In 1853, Mormons were attempting to settle the area of Utah but the Ute tribe had fought back, leading to the Walker War. This resulted in a settler win when the U.S. government stepped in and forced the tribe into a reservation in the late 1860's and early 1870's.
• On February 26, 1860, white settlers killed several villages of Natives, mostly killing women and children, for no apparent reason aside for just killing. This was the Gunther Island Massacre.
• On April 30, 1871 angry citizens along with their Papago mercenaries killed, raped, and tortured the Aravaipa Apache tribe in "retaliation" for the Gila Apache raid that resulted in 6 deaths and some stolen livestock. This became known as the Camp Grant Massacre.
• In 1890-91, the Ghost Dance was a religious movement that was believed to renew the Earth. It began when an elder, Wodziwob, had a dream that shown them an end to white expansion and a renewal of the earth. When the white people had found out what this practice was, they sought to end it and killed many Native Americans as so many were practicing this ritual and it has scared white people that their existence would be wiped out.

1901-current time

• In 1906, the Antiquities Act was passed. this means that any remains of Native American tribes, bones and objects within federal land, was now the U.S. Government's property.
• In 1907, the state of Oklahoma was made when Oklahoma territory and Native American land was merged by the U.S. government. The territory was open to white settlement. In the same year, Charles Curtis became the first Native American to be senator.
• In 1916, the U.S. government forced Natives in Utah to give up their land for oil reserves. The land stretches 84,000 acres.
• On March 9, 1929, Charles Curtis became the first Native American Vice President, serveing under President Herbert Hoover.
• In 1948, the Trujillo v. Garley Supreme Court ruled that all native Americans have the right to vote after the accusations that stated that states are not allowing Natives to vote.
• In 1958, Congress tried to abolish tribes and relocate Natives within the U.S. society. For example, Public State Law 280 had let states decide what they were to do to Native American Tribal Lands. What also happened in 1953 is that the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) tried to convince Natives to move to urban areas in order to decrease the growing unemployment rate in the Native community. Within five years of this proposal, 50% of the Native participants had returned back to their lands.
• On January 14, 2000, the government gave back the 84,000 acres of land that was stolen from the Ute tribe for oil reserves.
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• In 2010, President Obama signed a bill that gave $4.5 billion in return for all the mistreatment of the African Americans and the Native Americans.