Chronology of American Indian History

forbid Allotment, discourages white settlement among the Creek, and creates a police force called the “lighthorse” to enforce th ...

P story of his traditional Dakota Sioux upbringing in My Indian Boyhood. The memoir is the first in a series of stories and book ...

Pueblo Indians—are collected and reproduced in the 21st Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The images were commi ...

Apache war leader Geronimo, who sells his auto- graph for 10 cents. During the seven months the fair is in operation, more than ...

P 1890s, Curtis photographed the Indians living near his native Seattle. On the basis of this work, he was hired by the wealthy ...

P used by potters, basketmakers, and other traditional Indian artisans. Through her teaching and her own art, DeCora will pionee ...

factions: traditionalists (called “hostiles” by whites), who oppose the presence of whites in Hopi terri- tory; and progressives ...

November 16 Indian and Oklahoma territories become the state of Oklahoma. Formed from Indian Territory and Oklahoma Ter- ritory, ...

P sports organizations to use the warfare between Indians and non-Indians of previous centuries as a metaphor for the “battle” o ...

September 26 Paiute Indian Willie Boy becomes a fugitive. In Banning, California, a young Paiute man known as Willie Boy shoots ...

the Yahi tribe, most of whom had been killed either by Americans or by the diseases Europeans brought to North America. Unable t ...

P held the previous spring and hosted by a non-Indian sociologist at Ohio State University. Among the par- ticipants were Dakota ...

P 1913 Jesse Cornplanter illustrates The Code of Handsome Lake. A Seneca artist known for his drawings of Iroquois history and m ...

amazing performances in the decathlon and the pentathlon. The AAU makes the decision six days after the Worcester Telegram in Wo ...

Nelson A. Miles, is being promoted for use in schools. 1915 Mohawk steelworkers begin working in New York City. Hired to work on ...

P a boy before he was kidnapped by Akimel O’odham (Pima) Indians, who then sold him to a white guardian for $30. Many of Montezu ...

May 13 Native Americans celebrate Indian Day. The Society of American Indians, the leading Indian civil rights group in the Unit ...

P they increase the amount of smoke by adding dung to the fire, the surface turns black. After polishing, the unpainted area tak ...

1919 The Bureau of Indian Affairs confiscates the Northern Cheyenne’s horse herds. The Bureau of Indian Affairs announces that t ...

P become victims of non-Indian con men looking to swindle them out of their money in any way possible. In the three-year period ...