Beothuk Indians 52, 133
Bering land bridge 1,
3–4, 9
Bering Strait Theory 3,
46, 379
Big Horn National Forest
358–359
Big House religion 118, 256
Big Meadows, Battle of 160
Big Snake 205–206
Billie, James 355
Bill of Rights 230, 302
bison. See buffalo
Black Elk 262, 330
Blackfeet Indians 352, 424
Black Hawk 118, 137, 138,
139, 140
Black Hawk War 134, 138
Black Hills 428g
Camp Yellow Thunder
343–344
George Armstrong Custer
leads soldiers 192
Indian Claims
Commission offers
compensation for 325
Lakota Sioux sue over
illegal seizure of 254
lawsuits over 254, 305
resort plan of Kevin
Costner 373
United States takes control
of 198
U.S. Army leaves 194
United States v. Sioux Na-
tion of Indians 342
Black Kettle 170, 171,
183–184, 388
Black Legs warrior society
289–290
Blowsnake, Sam 258
Blue Lake 314, 380
Blue Licks, Battle of 106
Blue Water Creek, Battle
of 159
boarding schools. See Indian
boarding schools
Board of Indian Commis-
sioners 185–186
Boas, Franz 217, 262
Bodmer, Karl 139, 144
Boldt Decision 325, 328
Bone Shirt v. Hazeltine 417
Boone, Daniel 97, 103, 106
Bosomworth, Mary (Coo-
saponakeesa) 84–85
Bosque Redondo 135, 170,
174, 178, 393, 416
Boston Tea Party 95–96
Boudinot, Elias 131, 140,
142, 146
bow 17
Boy, Willie 241
Bozeman Trail 165, 178
Brando, Marlon 322
Brant, Joseph 98, 99, 100,
102, 104, 106–107
Brendale v. Confederated
Tribes and Bands of the
Yakima Indian Nation
361, 361
Britain. See Great Britain
Broken Arrow (film) 281,
281–282
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky
(Chief Seattle) 371
Brothertown 108
Brown, Dee 315
Brun, Derrick 414
buffalo 5, 188, 193, 194
Buffalo Bill. See Cody, Wil-
liam F. (Buffalo Bill)
“Buffalo Bill’s Wild West”
show 210–211, 211,
215
buffalo hunters 192, 193
buffalo jump 7, 8
Bureau of American Ethnol-
ogy 217–218, 428 g
Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA) 428g. See also
Removal; Termination
Policy
activists seize 311
apologizes to American
Indians 397–398
area offices 280
Civil service requirements
227
class action suit 394–395
Cobell v. Norton 381,
394–395
John C. Collier and 263,
277
“commissioner” title change
334
confiscates Northern Chey-
enne horses 250Courts of Indian Offenses
210
creation of 129
Ada Deer as head 374
encourages Navajo (Dineh)
move to cities 279
establishes Indian police
force on reservations
200–201
and Indian education re-
form 423–424
initiates education grant
program 279
“Last Great Indian Coun-
cil” 240
lawsuit with family of So-
happy-Gilbert 425
mismanagement by 362,
381, 393
Morton v. Mancari et al.
326
as part of Department of
the Interior 150–151
promotes adoptions 290
Relocation 283, 284
removes restrictions on In-
dian land sales 248
report of Senate Select
Committee on Indian
Affairs 362
restricting Indian ceremo-
nies 254
Trail of Broken Treaties
protesters occupy 320
Bureau of Land Manage-
ment 278, 320–321
burial mounds 13, 14, 149
Burke Act 237, 241
Bursum Bill 253, 254
Bush, George W., and
administration 410,
411, 423
Bushotter, George 217–218
Bushy Run, Battle of 92
Butler, Dino 331, 332C
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
Núñez 35–37
Cabot, John 27, 30
Cabrillo, Juan Rodriquez 40
Cahokia 2, 18, 18, 19, 104
Cahuilla Indians 286, 400Calder v. Attorney General of
British Columbia 321,
326
California
blocks extradition of
Dennis Banks 335
ceremonial use of peyote
297
Norma Jean Croy released
from prison 383
Eureka returns sacred land
to Wiyot 410
fires destroy Indian lands
in 409
founding of first mission
94
Indian groups agree to Ter-
mination 290
legalizes Indian indenture
152
mission secularization by
Mexico 141
protests of shooting death
of Indian student 311
Russian post in 122
tribes against state regula-
tion of gaming 386
vigilantes massacre Indians
on Humboldt Bay 162
voters approve expansion of
tribal gaming 395
California Indians 43, 153,
155, 212
California v. Cabazon Band
of Mission Indians 354–
355, 358
Callahan, Sophia Alice 225
Calusa warrior 34
Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
341, 370, 370, 384,
388, 411
Camp Charlotte, Treaty
of 98
Camp Grant 188–189
Camp Yellow Thunder
343–344
Canada. See also Aleut;
Inuit; Métis
Aboriginal Peoples Televi-
sion Network 390
Calder v. Attorney General of
British Columbia 321
Charlottestown Accord
372Index