Native Americans - Year version

Homestead Act

1862

Plains Wars begin

1862

Civil War takes resources away from NAs

1865

20,000 settlers on the Plains

1865

Medicine Lodge Treaty

1867

Fort Laramie Treaty

1868

Grant's Peace Policy

1868

Indian Appropriations Act

1871

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876

Ex Parte Crow Dog

1883

Elk v. Wilkins

1884

Major Crimes Act

1885

US v. Kagama

1886

Dawes Act

1887

541 bison left

1889

Massacre at Wounded Knee

1890

Talton v. Meyers

1896

Curtis Act

1898

Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock

1903

Society of American Indians founded

1911

US enters WW1

1917

AIDA formed

1923

Indian Citizenship Act

1924

Meriam Report

1928

Rhodes Reforms (Pres. Hoover)

1928

Bursum Bill

1928

John Collier Commissioner of Indian Affairs

1933

IRA

1934

WW2

1941

NCAI formed

1944

John Collier resigns

1945

Brophy (Collier's successor) starts relocating NAs to cities

1948

Harrison v. Laveen

1948

Eisenhower begins Termination Policy

1953

Public Law 280

1953

NIYC formed

1961

LBJ begins to end termination policy

1963

AIM formed

1968

Native American CRA

1968

LBJ Executive Order 11399 led to the NCIO (amended by Congress)

1968

Siege of Alcatraz started

1969

Louis R. Bruce Jr. appointed commissioner of Indian Affairs by Nixon

1969

NARF formed

1970

Siege of Alcatraz ended

1971

AIM's Trail of Broken Treaties

1972

Indian Education Act (Nixon)

1972

AIM's Occupation of Wounded Knee

1973

Oneida v. Oneida

1974

Indian Self Determination Act (Ford)

1975

Indian Education Assistance Act (Ford)

1975

AIM's Second Occupation of Wounded Knee

1975

Fisher v. Montana

1976

AIM's Longest Walk

1978

Native American Religious Freedom Act (Carter)

1978

Oliphant v. Suquamish

1978

Seminole Tribe v. Butterworth

1982

Charrier v. Bell

1986