#Land-Theft
Events indexed under #Land-Theft — 6 entries in the record.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1887-02-08 | Dawes Allotment Act Destroys Tribal Land Ownership, Facilitating Loss of 90 Million Acres to White Settlers
3 src Senator Henry L. Dawes · U.S. Congress · President Grover Cleveland · Bureau of Indian Affairs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1877-02-28 | Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval
3 src U.S. Congress · Sioux Nation · Lakota people · President Ulysses S. Grant | confirmed | |
| 1874-07-02 | Custer's Black Hills Expedition Violates Fort Laramie Treaty, Discovering Gold and Triggering Rush to Sioux Sacred Lands
3 src Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer · U.S. Army · Sioux Nation · Horatio Ross (prospector) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1868-04-29 | Fort Laramie Treaty Guarantees Black Hills to Sioux in Perpetuity - Later Violated for Gold Rush
3 src Sioux Nation · U.S. government · Lakota people · Red Cloud | confirmed | |
| 1851-03-03 | California Land Act of 1851 Enables Systematic Legal Theft from Mexican Land Grant Holders
3 src William M. Gwin · U.S. Congress · Board of Land Commissioners · Californio landowners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1848-02-02 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Promises Land Rights Then Enables Systematic Theft from Mexican Americans
4 src U.S. Senate · Mexico · Mexican Americans · U.S. government · +1 | confirmed |