Chronology of American Indian History

A
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem 386
Abenaki Indians 76, 81
Abramoff, Jack 392, 412,
420
Acosta, José de 46
Act for the Relief of the
Mission Indians 226
activists 325, 365–366. See
also specific headings, e.g.:
American Indian Move-
ment
Adair, James 97
Adena culture 2, 11, 12, 13
adobe homes 2, 15, 17,
19, 24
Adobe Walls, Battle of 171,
192
adoptions 290, 337, 360
African-American Indians
107
agency 427g
agent 239, 427 g
Agnew, Spiro 302, 308
agriculture. See farming
Ahgupuk, George 225
Akimel O’odham (Pima)
Indians 75, 76, 85
Akwesasne Notes (Mohawk
newspaper) 301, 356
Akwesasne reservation 364,
365
Alaska
becomes property of
United States 180
becomes state 291

Federation of Natives

formed 299

first salmon cannery 201

Native skeleton discovered

386

Russian settlement in

106, 113

Tlingit compensated for

bombing 320

Alaska Allotment Act 237

Alaska National Interest

Lands Conservation

Act 343

Alaska Native Claims Settle-

ment Act (ANCSA)

348, 351, 354

Alaska Native Reorganiza-

tion Act 270

Alaska Native Review Com-

mission 348, 351

Alaska Natives 83, 93, 212,

225, 226, 270

Alaskan Eskimo Whaling

Commission 334

Albany Congress 86–87

Alcatraz Island 297, 304,

308, 309, 316–317

alcohol

end of prohibition on sale

285

fetal alcohol syndrome 33,

359, 398

Indian names as liquor

brands 376–377, 382,

402

Lakota Sioux Indians pro-

test sales 390

sale of in Indian country

227–228

sermon on Indian abuse 95

United States v. Mazurie

327–328

United States v. Nice 246

United States v. Sandoval

244

Yakama Indian ban 398,

399

Aleut 427g

arrival of 9

attack on Russians at

Umnak 90

diverges with Inuit

culture 9

earthquake 297

Exxon Valdez oil spill 359

return to Pribilof Island

276

Russian attack on villages

93

skeletal remains reburied

369

slaughter by Russian trad-

ers 84

Aleutian Islands 6, 275

Allen, Paula Gunn 353

Allotment(s) 427g

abolishment of 266

Alaska Allotment Act 237

Atoka Agreement 230–231

John C. Collier and 263

Creek Indians 231–232

“Crime of 1908” 239

“Dead Indian Act” 233

end of 268

and federal government

237

General Allotment Act

226–227

and land loss 224

Meriam Report 260

Omnibus Act 241

Osage Allotment Act 236

taxation of 241

Alvarado, Pedro 35

American Association on

Indian Affairs 268

American Indian 404, 424

The American Indian (jour-

nal) 257

American Indian Arts Cen-

ter 295–296

American Indian Athletic

Hall of Fame 320

American Indian Chicago

Conference 267,

292–293

American Indian Civil

Rights Act 302

American Indian College

Fund 391

American Indian Dance

Theater 353, 354

American Indian Defense

Association (AIDA) 254

American Indian Federation

268–269

American Indian Film Insti-

tute 328

American Indian Higher

Education Consortium

318

Index

Locators set in italics indicate photographs or illustrations. Locators in boldface indicate main topics/entries.
Locators followed by g indicate glossary entries.