Native American Bank 403
Native American Church
249, 430 g–431g
Native American Cultural
Resources Training Pro-
gram 318
Native American Film and
Video Festival 339
Native American Graves
Protection and Repatria-
tion Act 341, 367, 381,
389, 402, 422, 424
Native American Journalists
Association (NAJA) 348
Native American Languages
Act 366–367
Native American Music
Album award 401, 401
Native American Music
Awards 384
Native American Public
Broadcasting Consor-
tium 334
Native American Religious
Freedom Act 375
Native American Rights
Fund 310
Native American Vietnam
Veterans Memorial 353
Navajo Community College
305, 306
Navajo (Dineh) Indians
arrive in Southwest 26
attack Fort Defiance 162
Bosque Redondo Memorial
dedicated 416
celebrate return of ancestral
land 397
ceremonies and songs re-
corded 214
clash at Fort Defiance 161
Code Talkers 275, 359,
372
and John C. Collier 268,
269
dedicate memorial to war
casualties 378–379
dry painting rug 250
Fairchild Semiconductor
Factory 307, 329
Fort Fauntleroy Massacre
164
G.I. Joe Code Talker doll
394
hantavirus epidemic 373
Healing v. Jones 294
Hopi-Navajo Land Settle-
ment Act 327
Hubbell Trading Post 201
killed at political rally 361
Hosteen Klah 250
land agreement with Hopi
372
George P. Lee 361–362
livestock reduction pro-
gram 263, 265
Long Walk 169
Peter MacDonald 366
Manuelito surrender 178
murder of Narbona 151
named in discrimination
suit 413–414
Nasdijj revealed as non-In-
dian 421
Navajo Business Council
255
Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Settlement Act 382
new council created by U.
S. government 271
permission to sue Hopi
290
petition for return to
homeland 181
peyote use 301
protesters occupy Utah oil-
fields 335
radioactive material escapes
from mine 339
Ramah Navajo Weavers As-
sociation 350
reject Indian Reorganiza-
tion Act 269
Relocation 279
school attendance 227
Treaty of 1868 181, 182
tribal council tried in fed-
eral court 306
U.S. Army military cam-
paign against 169
uranium mined on reserva-
tion 279
Annie Dodge Wauneka
282, 296
Windtalkers (film) 406
Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Settlement Act 382Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation
Act 281
Navy, U.S. 208
Nebraska 172, 359, 390
negotiators, U.S. 190–191
Neolin 49, 90–91
neutrality policy 77
New Echota, Treaty of 142
New England 53–54,
63–64, 69, 70
Newfoundland 22, 291
New France 52, 57, 67–68
New Jersey v. Wilson 122
New Mexico 15, 55,
177, 253, 295, 380,
416–417
New Mexico Indians 295
New Mexico v. Mescalero
Apache Tribe 347–348
New Netherlands 64–65,
68
New Orleans, Battle of
124–125
New York, Treaty of 111
New York City 187, 245,
246, 261, 271, 272
New York State 53, 275,
351, 409
New York State Power Au-
thority 288, 289, 292
Nez Perce Indians 140,
198, 215, 376. See also
Chief Joseph
Nez Perce War 199, 200
Nicolet, Jean 59
Nisenan Indians 150
Nixon, Richard M. 304–
305, 313, 314, 320, 321
Niza, Marcos de 38
“noble savage” 87, 88
non-Christian Indians 32
Nootka Indians 117
Nordwall, Adam 323
Norse 22, 291
North America 1, 3–6, 9,
11–12, 17, 29–31, 39
warming climate 5–6
North American Indian
Prose Award 363
North American Indians
(Catlin) 147
North American Indig-
enous Games (Alberta,
Canada) 366Northern Cheyenne Indians
245, 250, 370
Northern Paiute (Numu)
Indians 182, 184, 219
North West Company 107,
125, 127
Northwest Indian Fisheries
Commission 328
Northwest Indians 7, 350,
355–356, 360, 398, 409
Northwest Rebellion, First
186–188
Northwest Rebellion, Sec-
ond 214–215
Northwest Territories 116,
329
Nuclear Regulatory Com-
mission (NRC) 418
nuclear waste 294, 340,
368, 375, 377, 418
Numu Indians. See North-
ern Paiute (Numu)
Indians
Nunavut territory (Canada)
341, 369–370, 384, 387O
Oakes, Richard 309, 313,
319, 320
Oatman, Olive 153–154,
154
Oatman family 153
Occom, Samson 94, 95,
95, 108
Office of Indian Trade 119
off-reservation Indians 78
Oglala Lakota Sioux Indians
315, 344
Ohio land 85, 100–101,
115
Ohio River tribes 12–14,
89
Ohio River valley 11, 102
oil
Arctic refuge 353, 354,
377
Exxon Valdez spill 359
and low prices for Indian
land 408
and Osage Indians 230,
250–251, 256,
394–395
protesters occupy oilfields
335Index