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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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| 1877 |
| | | The Nez Percé Indians are led by Chief Joseph in a war against the US army | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The Dawes Severalty Act deprives American Indians of their tribal lands, giving each instead an allotment of up to 160 acres | |
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| c. 1888 |
| | | An American Indian visionary, Wovoka, launches a new religion that will bring the dead back to life, calling it the Ghost Dance | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The first Land Run into Oklahoma has settlers galloping in from noon to claim territory previously reserved for American Indians | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Hundreds of Sioux Indians are killed by US troops in a massacre at Wounded Knee Creek | |
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| 1907 |
| | | A midwest region, including what remains of the reserved Indian Territory, is included in Oklahoma when it joins the Union as the 46th state | |
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