Chronology of American Indian History

American Indian Scholars. Sponsored by the Amer- ican Indian Historical Society (see entry for 1964), the participants discuss t ...

P June 6 The Pit River Indians occupy Lassen National Forest. The Pit River Indians take over the Pacific Gas and Electric Compa ...

1971), Indian supporters establish a camp at Four Corners, near Burney, California. When they begin cutting up felled trees to b ...

1971 Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is published. Subtitled “An Indian History of the American West,” Bury My Heart a ...

P the James Bay region to be dammed or diverted. As a result, the lands of Cree Indians and Inuit in the area will be flooded. W ...

including the Trail of Broken Treaties (see entry for NOVEMBER 2 TO 8, 1972) and the Wounded Knee occupation (see entry for FEBR ...

local, state, and national news and educational pro- gramming in the Navajo (Dineh) language. Its call letters stand for the Nav ...

P launch a series of legal battles in an attempt to halt the project. Spring The Indian Education Act is passed. The Senate Spec ...

November 2 to 8 The Trail of Broken Treaties protesters occupy the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters. Starting from the Rose ...

ing lands. The BLM ignore the Danns’s claims and sends federal agents to impound their cattle. (See also entries for FEBRUARY 20 ...

P from a government grant, Wilson assembled a heavily armed force of policemen who refer to themselves as “goons” (an acronym fo ...

harassment of Indian traditionalists on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In the next three years, 69 peo- ple affiliated with the res ...

P December 22 The Menominee Restoration Act reinstates the Menominee's tribal status. Twelve years after the termination of the ...

protection of Indian sites of historical and cultural significance. The Indian Claims Commission offers compensation for the Bla ...

P June The International Indian Treaty Council is founded. The First International Indian Treaty Conference results in the forma ...

four-week occupation of Anishinabe Park in Ke- nora, Ontario. The park sits on 14 acres of land that the Canadian Department of ...

P the tribal council had refused to give him a liquor license, Mazurie was convicted of selling liquor illegally. In United Stat ...

Indians,” it consists of five Native Americans, three senators, and three congressmen. (See also entry for MAY 17, 1977.) Januar ...

project (see entry for APRIL 30, 1971), the Cana- dian government negotiates the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement with th ...

In Washington, the fingerprints on the hands allow the BIA to identify the woman as AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash. At the demand ...