Menominee Restoration
Act 324
Menominee Warrior Society
328
Meriam Report 224, 259–
260, 430 g
Mesa Verde 23, 23, 422
Mescalero Apache Indians
Bosque Redondo Memorial
dedicated 416
Kit Carson and 135, 168
claim “Geronimo’s head-
dress” 398
escape from Bosque Re-
dondo 174
nuclear waste dump on res-
ervation 375, 377
retain reservation hunting
and fishing control
347–348
Mesoamerica 1–2, 6, 10,
11, 14–15, 17, 25–26
Mesquaki Indians. See Fox
(Mesquaki) Indians
Metacom 67–71, 133, 142,
143
Métis 430g
declare independence 186
government formed 214
government surveyors
driven from land 186
hunting rights 409
Manitoba Act 187
Second Northwest Rebel-
lion 214
Seven Oaks, Battle of 125
Mexican Indians 2, 7, 10
Mexican-American War. See
U.S.-Mexican War
Mexico 17, 20–21, 127,
141
Miami Indians 85, 230
Miantonomo 62
Micmac Indians 47, 52, 79,
347, 397
Midwest 2, 12–14
migration 1, 3
military service 266–267,
272, 273. See also vet-
erans
Mills, Billy 298, 406
Mimbres 22
Mingo Indians 96–97mining 271, 316, 327, 340,
379, 385, 409
Minnesota 302–303,
376–377, 382, 406
Minnesota Uprising of 1862
168
mint, U.S. 244
Mission Indian Federation
250, 251
missions
Akimel O’odham destroy
75
Cayuse attack at Whitman
149
earthquake at San Juan
Capistrano 122
established among Cayuse
Indians 143
in Florida 77
founding of first Califor-
nia 94
and Gabrielino Indians
uprising 107
Mexico secularization of
California 141
revolt at La Purísima Con-
cepción 128
San Jose Indian revolt 131
Santa Clara Indian revolt
131
San Xavier del Bac mis-
sion 76
Whitman murders 152
Mississippian culture 2,
17–19, 18, 21, 24, 104
Mississippi Band of Choctaw
Indians v. Holyfield et
al. 360
Mississippi Valley 73,
121–122
Mixtec culture 17
Modoc Indians 190–192,
383
Mohawk Indians
activists/police face-off in
Quebec 365–366
Akwesasne Notes 301
during American Revolu-
tion 100, 102
Joseph Brant 98, 99, 100,
102, 104, 106–107
Cornwall-Massena Interna-
tional Bridge 303
defeat Dutch 57French attack 68
at Ganienkeh 364–365
Ganienkeh occupation
325, 333
Huron-French force against
51
as ironworkers 215, 238
and Queen Anne 78, 78
rebel colonists dressed as
95–96
Jay Silverheels 339
steelworkers in New York
City 246
takeovers at Akwesasne res-
ervation 338–339, 365
Kateri Tekakwitha 72,
272, 342
Mohegan Indians 60, 62,
95, 149, 383, 407
Mojave Indians 161
Momaday, N. Scott 306,
371
Montana v. United States
344
Montesinos, Antonio de 32
Montezuma, Carlos 243,
246–247, 247
Montezuma Xocoyotzin
31–32
Montoya v. Bolack 295
Montoya v. United States
407
Moor’s Indian Charity
School 86
Morgan, Lewis Henry 153,
153
Mormons 160–161, 210,
278, 361–362
Morrill Act 165
Morton v. Mancari et al.
326
Moundbuilders 2, 229
mounds
burial 11, 13, 14, 149
Great Serpent Mound 12,
13, 13, 217
Thomas Jefferson’s excava-
tion of 106
Mountain Meadows Massa-
cre 160–161, 411
Mount Rushmore 313
Mourning Dove. See Quin-
tasket, ChristineMozart, Wolfgang 402–
403
Muddy Creek, Battle of
199
Museum of the American
Indian 246, 271
music 283, 396
Muskrat, Ruth 252–253,
254
My Indian Boyhood (East-
man) 232–233
Mystic, Connecticut 60,
60, 61N
Nansatico Indians 77
Nanticoke Indians 70
Narragansett Indians 59,
60, 62–64, 70, 321
Natchez Indians 82
National American Indian
Court Judges Associa-
tion 311
National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA)
393, 416, 417
National Congress of Amer-
ican Indians (NCAI)
267, 277, 292, 412
National Council of Ameri-
can Indians 257–258
National Council on Indian
Opportunity 302
National Indian Brother-
hood 344
National Indian Council
294, 301
National Indian Education
Association 308
National Indian Youth
Council 293, 297, 307
National League for Justice
to American Indians
265
National Library of Medi-
cine (NLM) 410–411
National Museum of
the American Indian
(NMAI) 362, 369,
372–373, 393, 411,
412, 425
Native 430g
Native American 229, 248,
430 gChronology of American Indian History