Native American Civil Rights Key Dates

1862

Homestead Act

Plains Wars begin

1865

Civil War takes resources away from NAs

20,000 settlers on the Plains

1867

Medicine Lodge Treaty

1868

Fort Laramie Treaty

Grant's Peace Policy

1871

Indian Appropriations Act

1876

Battle of Little Bighorn

1883

Ex Parte Crow Dog

1884

Elk v. Wilkins

1885

Major Crimes Act

1886

US v. Kagama

1887

Dawes Act

1889

541 bison left

1890

Massacre at Wounded Knee

1896

Talton v. Meyers

1898

Curtis Act

1903

Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock

1911

Society of American Indians founded

1917

US enters WW1

1923

AIDA formed

1924

Indian Citizenship Act

1928

Meriam Report

Rhodes Reforms (Pres. Hoover)

Bursum Bill

1933

John Collier Commissioner of Indian Affairs

1934

IRA

1941

WW2

1944

NCAI formed

1945

John Collier resigns

1948

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

Harrison v. Laveen

1953

Eisenhower begins Termination Policy

Public Law 280

1961

NIYC formed

1963

LBJ begins to end termination policy

1968

AIM formed

Native American CRA

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

1969

Siege of Alcatraz started

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

1970

NARF formed

1971

Siege of Alcatraz ended

1972

AIM's Trail of Broken Treaties

Indian Education Act (Nixon)

1973

AIM's Occupation of Wounded Knee

1974

Oneida v. Oneida

1975

Indian Self Determination Act (Ford)

Indian Education Assistance Act (Ford)

AIM's Second Occupation of Wounded Knee

1976

Fisher v. Montana

1978

AIM's Longest Walk

Native American Religious Freedom Act (Carter)

Oliphant v. Suquamish

1982

Seminole Tribe v. Butterworth

1986

Charrier v. Bell