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| 1795 |
| | | After the Fort Greenville concessions, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh emerges as a champion of Indian territorial rights | |
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| 1796 |
| | | George Washington selects the Cherokee Indians for an experiment in adaptation to 'civilization' | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa set up a permanent base in Indiana, calling it Prophetstown | |
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| 1809 |
| | | The Treaty of Fort Wayne is the climax of seven years in which William Henry Harrison has acquired millions of acres from the American Indians | |
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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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