Chronology of American Indian History

tribe. Over the next week, more than 100,000 people will visit the new museum, which includes display space for more than 8,000 ...

of the Dakota “loyalists” to claim a share of the prof- its made by tribally operated casinos on these lands. October 29 Judge d ...

P of employment discrimination. Two Hopi and one Otoe applied for work in the mine but were turned down because Peabody agreed, ...

up. I will remember it as a day when darkness walked the halls, when the angel of death came, when the majestic Thunderbird sent ...

P Unity: Journalists of Color, a national organization of minority journalists, hesitated to hold its 2008 convention in the cit ...

the Pueblo in the late 16th century (see entry for 1598). Speaking at the event, Santa Ana council- man Manuel R. Cristobal decl ...

P to evacuees looking to ride out the storm and its aftermath. September 9 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) authorizes Sk ...

the decision might result in a speedier end to the case. (See also entries for DECEMBER 19, 2005, and JULY 12, 2006.) November 2 ...

P December 22 Cherokee court confirms legality of same- sex marriage. The Judicial Appeals Tribunal of the Cherokee Na- tion rej ...

P a direct affront to traditional Native beliefs and one more nail in the coffin of all the tribes throughout the country [and t ...

permission of the secretary of the interior and the governor of their state. The National Indian Gam- ing Association comes out ...

P Osage, and Northern Cheyenne. (See also entry for 1983.) July 12 Appeals court removes judge from Cobell case. After nine year ...

P basic services for reservation students. Schreier finds in the tribes’ favor, agreeing that they had not been properly informe ...

September 14 The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) settles lawsuit with the family of deceased Indian boarding school student. The ...

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agency The complex of buildings that served as a reservation’s administrative center (and that usually included the agent’s livi ...

Black Hills An area of forested mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming that is sacred to several Plains ...

friends of the Indian Non-Indian reformers who, in the 19th century, encouraged the U.S. government to adopt more benevolent pol ...

Inuit The native people of the arctic land stretching from central Alaska to the northern coast of Canada and onto the island of ...

during which buttons of the peyote cactus are ingested sacramentally. Incor- porated in Oklahoma in 1918, the Native American Ch ...