Chronology of American Indian History

non-Indian missionaries to increase awareness of the special concerns of the Native American Catho- lics among Roman Catholic Ch ...

P “When I went to Germany I never thought about war hon- ors, or the four ‘coups’ which an old-time Crow warrior had to earn in ...

P City. The institute’s goal is to negotiate formal agreements with the nations of the Pan American Union, in which each nation ...

January The Seneca demand payment from non-Indians leasing their lands. On behalf of the Seneca, the United States in United Sta ...

P on Germany, Italy, and Japan. The declaration, made without the full consent of the Iroquois council, is an effort to stave of ...

November The National Congress of American Indians is founded. Eighty Indians representing 50 tribes convene in Denver, Colorado ...

P and widely reproduced images of World War II. (See also entry for JANUARY 23, 1955.) 1946 The United States forms the Bureau o ...

1948 Uranium is first mined on the Navajo (Dineh) reservation. The Kerr-McGee Company begins mining the vast uranium resources o ...

P Following Ziolkowski’s death in 1982, his widow and children will take over the project, which is projected to continue well i ...

the athlete in the second place, receives only 86 first-place votes. April 19 Congress passes the Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Act ...

P Rather than dismissing Indians as savage, uncivi- lized killers, it offers a complex Indian character in Cochise, the legendar ...

State’s testing of nuclear bombs. The land belongs to the Western Shoshone, who are not consulted about the president’s appropri ...

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P Bender had a successful second career managing and coaching in the minors. The Indian Claims Commission makes its first lands ...

Indian rights groups strongly object to the leg- islation, which they see as a major threat to tribes’ right to self-government. ...

P Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. The ranchers fight the tax in federal court, where their lawyer angrily claims the Lakota are ...

P State of Washington v. Satiacum encourages northwestern Indian fishing. The Washington State Supreme Court hears State of Wash ...

Kiowa veterans revive the Black Legs warrior society. A group of Kiowa veterans of World War II and the Korean War meet in Carne ...

armed services. Their female relatives, however, par- ticipate in the biannual ceremonies by performing the Scalp Dance, a ritua ...

Kahnawake Mohawk address the United Nations. A delegation of Kahnawake Mohawk appears before the United Nations to claim that th ...