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NA History Dates
The dates of key events in Native American Civil Rights. A level OCR History.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Homestead Act | 1862 |
| Pacific Railroad Act | 1862 |
| Plains Wars | 1862-1868 |
| Second Fort Laramie Treaty | 1868 |
| Indian Appropriations Act | 1871 |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | 1876 |
| Dawes Act | 1887 |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | 1890 |
| Curtis Act | 1898 |
| Cherokee v. Hitchcock | 1902 |
| Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock | 1903 |
| Society of American Indians founded | 1911 |
| Indian Citizenship Act | 1924 |
| Meriam Report | 1928 |
| Rhoads Reforms | 1929 |
| Indian Reorganisation Act (Wheeler-Howard Act) | 1934 |
| National Congress of American Indians founded | 1944 |
| Indian Claims Commission set up | 1946 |
| Harrison v. Laveen | 1948 |
| Termination policy started | 1953 |
| National Indian Youth Council set up | 1961 |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 |
| President Johnson's 'Forgotten Americans' speech | 1968 |
| American Indian Movement set up | 1968 |
| Siege of Alcatraz | 1969 |
| Nixon denounces the Termination policy in a speech to Congress | 1970 |
| Native American Rights Fund set up | 1970 |
| Occupation of Mount Rushmore | 1971 |
| Indian Education Act | 1972 |
| AIM takeover of Bureau of Indian Affairs | 1972 |
| Oneida v. Oneida and Madison Counties | 1974 |
| Indian Self-Determination Act | 1975 |
| Indian Education Assistance Act | 1975 |
| Fisher v. Montana | 1976 |
| American Indian Religious Freedom Act | 1978 |
| Indian Child Welfare Act | 1978 |
| United States v. Sioux | 1980 |
| Seminole v. Butterworth | 1982 |
| Charrier v. Bell | 1986 |