Indigenous Americans: Genocide, enslavement, and dispossession -- new wording

• 1492: Columbus leads the way: Enslavement, slaughter, and land theft  

• 1526: First Africans likely brought as slaves to North America revolt  

• 1734: Sarah Chauqum: Native American woman wins reparations  

• 1739-1740: Native Americans use courts to win freedom

• 1823: Supreme Court legitimizes theft of Native lands  

• 1830: Congress seizes Native lands, triggers slavery expansion  

• 1833: Native leader designates "Days of Mourning" to mark colonists' arrival  

• 1864: U.S. soldiers kill, rape Native people promised asylum