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Native Hist
Chronicles Dates in Amercian Indian History 1885-2001
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1885 | Last Bison herd exterminated |
| 1886 | Geronimo and his band of Apaches surrender |
| 1887 | Passage of General Allotment Act (Dawes Act) |
| c. 1889 | Ghost Dance Religion moves across plains |
| 1890 | Massacre at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 29 December |
| 1891 | Publication of Alice Callahan's Wynema, the first novel by a native woman |
| 1895 | Publication of E. Pauline Johnson's White Wampum, the first book of poetry by an American Indian Woman |
| 1902 | Publication of Charles Eastman's Indian Boyhood, the first written for children |
| 1903 | Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock determines the US has always had absolute plenary power over Natives and their property |
| 1913 | Publication of Johnson's Moccasin Maker and Shagganappi, the first book of essays and short fiction by a Native woman |
| 1919 | Publication of Will Rogers's Rogers-isms |
| 1924 | Congress grants birthright citizenship to American Indians |
| 1928 | Merinam Report published on US government mistreatment of Native people |
| 1931 | Publication of Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs |
| 1932 | Publication of John Joseph Mathews's Wah'Kon-Tah, first Book of the Month |
| 1934 | Passage of the Wheeler Howard Indian Reorganization act (Indian New Deal) |
| 1941 | National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) established |
| 1944 | Publication of Ella Deloria's Speaking of Indians |
| 1953 | House COncurrent Resolution 108 passed instituting the policy of termination of the federal role in Indian affairs |
| 1954 | Publication of D'Arcy McNickle's Runner In The Sun |
| 1961 | National Indian Youth Council founded (NIYC) |
| 1968 | American Indian Movement (AIM) founded. Publication of N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn |
| 1969 | American Indians Occupy Alcatraz Island Publication of Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain. Momaday's two books usher in a reniassance in native literature. Publication of Vine Deloria, Jr.'s Custer Died for Your Sins |
| 1970 | Sacred Blue Lake returns to Taos Publo Indians |
| 1971 | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act passed |
| 1972 | Indians occupy the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washinton DC. |
| 1973 | Embattlement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota |
| 1978 | Passage of Indian Religious Freedom Act and Indian Child Welfare Act |
| 1988 | Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetary Protective Association permits the US to build a road through California Indians' religious sites |
| 1989 | Federal judge upholds off-reservation fishing rights of Wisconsin Anishinaabe guaranteed in 1837 and 1842 treaties |
| 1990 | Passage of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Oka take-over by Khanawake Mohawk community by Montreal, Canada. |
| 2001 | Iroquois Confederacy sends formal condolences to the United States after the attack on the World Trade Center. |
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