Ojibwe+Timeline

__900s__
- Ojibwe leave villages on Atlantic Coast to travel inland to the St. Lawrence River.

__**1618**__
- The Ojibwe make first contact with the French. Trading begins.

__**1670**__
- Smallpox kills half the Ojibwe living in Sault St. Marie - Ojibwe fought a number of battles with the Iroquois

__**1687-1690**__
- The Ojibwe move eastward across northern shores of Great Lakes to take over the land of the defeated Iroquois. - Hudson's Bay Trading Company opens for buisness

__**1701**__
- Ojibwe take over lands from the northern sides of Lake Erie and Ontario to the western shores of Lake Superior. Trade with the French stops by order of the King of France. The Ojibwe then take their furs to the British.

__**1701-1715**__
- Ojibwe move fur trade from Mackinac to Detroit. They go south and west, and take over the lands of the Lakota Sioux, Sauk, and Fox.

__**1745-1759**__
- Ojibwe participate in defending Quebec from British takeover. France is deafeated in 1759, and Canada becomes Britich territory.

__**1763**__
- British Proclamation of 1763 forbids European settlement west of Appalachians. This protects Ojibwe from European invasion, but it is broken by American frontiersmen who cross and settle on native land. - treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed

__**1785**__
- First treaty signed between the Ojibwe and the United States. The treaty established a boundary between native and white lands in Ohio. The result of this is war along the Ohio River between settlers on native land and natives not recognizing the treaty.

__**1795**__
- Greensville treaty gives most of Ohio to the Americans

__**1812**__
- The War of 1812 between the British in Canada and the Americans causes the Ojibwe to fight on both sides.

__**1815-1850**__
-The Ojibwe wage war on the Lakota Sioux. - Treaty of Fond du Lac is signed

__**1850-1860**__
- The Robertson Treaties take most of the land along the northern shores of the Great Lakes away from the Ojibwe. In the same way, Ojibwe lose land in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

__**1867**__
A treaty with the Minnesota Ojibwe gives them title to White Earth Reservation.

__**1887**__
- Dawes Act or General Allotment Act says that all land given to natives must be held by individuals and not held by a tribe as a whole. This allows land not in the name of an native individual to be sold to Americans.

__**1890-1960s**__
- Ojibwe children are sent away to residential schools. There they are taught to be ashamed of there native heritage. - 1939 :Ojibwe participate in World War 2