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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 |