| Year |
History |
| 1634 |
Possibly met by Jean Nicolet,
their first encounter with Europeans |
| 1640 |
The beginning of the Beaver Wars
which drove the Chippewa westward to expel numerous tribes from their
territories |
| 1640 |
First mentioned in the Jesuit
Relations |
| 1641 |
Jesuit Frs. Charles Raymbault
and Isaac Jones visited Chippewa at Sault Ste. Marie who were fighting a
powerful enemy to the west called the Nadouessioux (Rattlesnakes), leter
shortened by the French to Sioux |
| 1662 |
Expelled Iroquois from Lake
Superior |
| 1669 |
Sturgeon War against Menominee |
| 1680 |
Iroquois fail to take Ft. St.
Louis on the upper Illinois River |
| 1687 |
Newly armed Ojibwe began
offensive which ultimately confined the Iroquois to their original
territories |
| 1690 |
Ojibwe drove the Fox from the
St. Croix Valley |
| 1701 |
French brokered peace treaty
between the Algonquian tribes and the Iroquois ended Beaver Wars |
| 1737 |
Dakota uprising against the
French began 130 years of war between the Dakota and Ojibwe |
| 1745 |
Ojibwe force Dakota from Mille
Lacs region |
| 1750 |
Chippewa bands migrated to Red
Lake |
| 1752 |
Ojibwe began war with allies
against the Illinois to avenge the assassination of Pontiac, Illinois
tribe nearly obliterated |
| 1758 |
St. Mary's Mission established
at Red Lake |
| 1763 |
Joined the Pontiac Conspiracy to
rid region of British and return the French |
| 1765 |
Drove Lakota out of Minnesota
and onto plains, but lakota soon acquires horses and became more
formidable enemies |
| 1767 |
British began using the French
to trade with the Ojibwe |
| 1780 |
Not a single Dakota village
north of the Minnesota River, attacked Cheyenne while men off hunting
driving tribe out onto the plains |
| 1804 |
Lewis and Clark visited Red Lake |
| 1812 |
War left Americans in total
control, tribal lands began to dwindle |
| 1819 |
Fort Snelling (at present St.
Paul) established to quell war between Dakota and Ojibwe |
| 1839 |
100 Ojibwe and 23 Dakota killed
in battle on the grounds of Fort Snelling, some of tribe moved to Kansas |
| 1847 |
President Zachary Taylor
proposed the removal of all Ojibwe to Kansas, but his death postponed
removal |
| 1853 |
Minnesota legislature voted to
oppose removal of Ojibwe tribes |
| 1854 |
L'Anse Reservation established,
La Pointe Treaty ceded lands but created Fond du Lac Reservation |
| 1855 |
Mille Lacs Reservation
established |
| 1860 |
Bay Mills Indian Community
established by treaty |
| 1864 |
Isabella Indian Reservation
established by treaty |
| 1865 |
Minnesota reservations
established by treaty, American Fur Company established a post at Red
Lake |
| 1866 |
Kansas bands moved to Oklahoma,
joined Cherokee |
| 1875 |
Conclusion of Treaty No. 1 in
which Ojibwe ceded Canadian lands |
| 1884 |
U. S. took Turtle Mountain
Reservation from Ojibwe and Cree, tribes remain without reservations
today |
| 1913 |
Hannahville Indian Community
Established |
| 1967 |
American Indian Movement (AIM)
established by Chippewa activists, incorporated 1970 |
| 1972 |
Ottawa and Chippewa Nation of
Indians received net award form earlier treaties on $10 million, Sault
Ste. Marie Tribe federally recognized |
| 1984 |
Traverse Band of Chippewa and
Ottawa Reservation established |
| 1988 |
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Reservation established |
| 1994 |
Pokagon Band (Anishinabeg) and
Little Travers Band of Odawa Indians established |
| 2005 |
10 killed at the Red Lake High
School as a result of an assault buy a single ex-student |