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| 1817 |
| | | Andrew Jackson, attacking settlements in Spanish Florida, launches the first of three wars against the Seminole Indians | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The spoken language of the Cherokee Indians is captured in written form – an achievement traditionally attributed to Sequoyah | |
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| 1828 |
| | | The Cherokees adopt an American-style constitution and publish the first American-Indian newspaper | |
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| 1829 |
| | | The state government of Georgia declares that it is illegal for for the Cherokees to hold political assemblies | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, to push the American Indian tribes west of the Mississippi | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Five American Indian tribes are forcibly escorted to a new Indian Territory west of the Mississippi in the process that becomes known as the Great Removal | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Longfellow publishes his American Indian epic, The Song of Hiawatha, in an irresistibly catchy metre | |
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| c. 1865 |
| | | The Plains Indians are threatened by settlers pressing west, building railways and slaughtering buffalo | |
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| 1868 |
| | | George Custer leads federal troops in the massacre of more than 100 American Indians, on an official reservation beside the Washita river | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad cuts through the territory reserved for American Indians, bringing hordes of 'boomers' | |
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