** 1836: The last of the Creek Indians leave their land for Oklahoma as part of the Indian Removal process. Of the 15,00 who leave for Oklahoma, more than 3,500 don't survive.
** 1838: With just 2,000 Cherokees having left their land in Georgia to cross the Mississippi River, President Martin Van Buren gets General Winfield Scott and 7,000 troops to speed up the process by holding them at gunpoint and marching them 1,200 miles.
More than 5,000 Cherokees die in this and this became known as the Trail of Tears.
** 1851: Congress passes the Indian Appropriations Act, creating the Indian Reservation System. Indians can not leave these reservations without permission.
** OCTOBER 1860: A group of Apache Indians attack and kidnap a white American, resulting in the U.S. military falsely accusing the leader of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, Cochise. Cochise and the Apaches increase raids on white Americans for a decade afterwards.
** NOVERMBER 29, 1864: A 650 Colorado volunteer force attacks Cheyenne and Arapaho encampments along Sand Creek in Colorado, killing and mutilating more than 150 Indians in what has become known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
--Cooter
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