Chronology of American Indian History

December Eighty Kwakiutl are arrested for holding a potlatch ceremony. In a village near Alert Bay, off Vancouver Island, nearly ...

become instrumental in the creation of the National Congress of American Indians (see entry for NO- VEMBER 1944), a national mul ...

The Lakota Sioux sue the United States for the illegal seizure of the Black Hills. In a suit against the U.S. government filed i ...

P July 7 The Navajo Business Council holds its first meeting. In 1921 the Midwest Refining Company began ne- gotiating with the ...

P June 7 The Pueblo Lands Act settles land disputes between Pueblo and non-Indians. The Bursum Bill sought to give non-Indians t ...

1926 The American Indian begins publication. Indian progressives begin publishing The Ameri- can Indian, a journal that focuses ...

P behalf of the Indians, and secure for them added recognition of their personal and property rights.” Bonnin encourages Indians ...

achieves popular and critical success with the publication of Cogewea: The Half-Blood, one of the first novels published by an A ...

P led by Lewis M. Meriam, to survey the living con- ditions of Indians in the United States. After eight months of fieldwork, th ...

in the vice presidency, he will continue to advocate Assimilationist policies. 1930 Oliver La Farge’s Laughing Boy wins the Puli ...

P Harvard’s Peabody Museum and a collection of paintings recording Hopi life for the Museum of the American Indian (see entry fo ...

P established to “recover, maintain, and develop” In- dian art. Under Dunn’s tutelage, Santa Fe students, many in grade school, ...

Commissioner of Indian Affairs John C. Collier with two Hopi men in the village of Oraibi (National Archives, Neg. no. RG75-PU-W ...

cattle. The U.S. government maintains the solu- tion to the problem is for the Navajo to reduce their herds, particularly their ...

In the first decades of the 20th century, Indians found themselves drawn deeper and deeper into the mire of poverty. Even before ...

profoundly affected their relationship to non-Indian society. Indian soldiers who had previously spent little time outside of re ...

1934 The American Association on Indian Affairs is founded. At the request of Commissioner of Indian Affairs John C. Collier, Ol ...

P AIF will fall into disarray in the mid-1940s after the group’s repeated efforts to destroy the BIA fail. 1935 The Navajo (Dine ...

P exhibitions that encourage non-Indians to see the Indians’ work as art rather than just objects of eth- nographic interest (se ...

June 26 Congress passed the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. Because the governments of the large Indian tribes of Oklahoma were dis ...