DipityThis law authorized the site of the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by US and Colorado soldiers to be turned into a national monument park. An earlier law apologized for the Mass...
President Clinton authorized a White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities within the US Department of Education to continue the support and development of tribal colleges into the 2...
President Clinton issued this statement to reaffirm the American Indian Religious Freedom Act policy and protection of Indian sacred sites.
President William Jefferson Clinton issued this statement “to clarify our responsibility to ensure that the Federal Government operates within a government- to-government relation-ship with federal...
This law requires all institutions that receive federal funds to inventory their collections of Indian human remains and artifacts, make their lists available to Indian tribes, and return remains t...
This law made it US policy to “preserve, protect, and promote the rights and freedom of Native Americans to use, practice, and develop Native American languages.” Thus, the federal government encou...
This law promotes Indian artwork and handicraft businesses, reduces foreign and counterfeit product competition, and tries to stop deceptive marketing practices. It also set stiff penalties for per...
This law was signed by President George Bush and established the museum within the Smithsonian Institution; nationalized a private trust’s one million Native artworks and objects; authorized three ...
This statute affirmed the right of tribes to conduct gaming on Indian lands, but made it subject to tribal/state compact negotiations for some types of gaming. • Class I includes social games ...
The Yurok Indians and several other Northern California tribes argued that the construction of a 6-mile, two-lane paved road between the towns of Gasquet and Orleans (the G-O Road and the implement...
The Cabazon Tribe in Southern California operated a high stakes bingo game and card club on reservation lands. The State claimed it had the legal authority to prohibit such activities on Indian lan...
This law required either the President or the Secretary of the Interior to notify the governing body of any Indian tribe where it is proposed that a high-level radioactive waste or a spent nuclear ...
The Court ruled that tribes have the right to create gambling enterprises on their land, even if such facilities are prohibited by the state. The ruling enabled reservations to establish casinos an...
This statute encouraged Indian tribes to mine their lands in a manner that would help them become economically self-sufficient.
The six-year occupation of the Black Hills at Camp Yellow Thunder began after the US Supreme Court affirmed a series of lower court rulings acknowledging that the Black Hills had never been legally...
The Court upheld an Appeals Court decision in a matter popularly known as the Boldt case. It reaffirmed treaties in the northwest governing tribal fishing and allocated 50% of the fish in their “us...
This law was approved by President Jimmy Carter and addressed the widespread practice of transferring the care and custody of Indian children to non-Indians. It recognized Indian extended family ri...
This major national protest event of the Red Power Movement began in San Francisco when a group of American Indians set out for Washington, DC, to symbolize the forced removal and Indians from thei...
This law provided for federal grants to tribally controlled community colleges. By the 1990s, 29 tribally-controlled colleges were located throughout Indian Country, each of which offers curricula ...
This law promised to “protect and preserve for American Indians their inherent right of freedom to believe, express, and exercise” traditional religions, “including but not limited to access to sit...
On Thanksgiving Day, AIM and The International Indian Treaty Council organized this event on Alcatraz to honor the men and women who participated in the occupation of Alcatraz, to keep the spirit o...
In June, two FBI agents entered the Pine Ridge Reservation claiming that they were looking for a tribal member on theft and assault charges. Shots were fired under confusing circumstances, resultin...
This law recognized the obligation of the US to provide for maximum participation by American Indians in federal services to and programs for Indian communities, established a goal to provide educa...
At the Pine Ridge Reservation of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota, trouble had been brewing between the Indian people who supported AIM, and tribal leaders who had the support of the BIA. After a v...
Over 800 Indian people traveled across the United States to Washington, DC, where they planned to meet with BIA officials and to deliver a 20-point proposal for revamping the BIA and establishing a...
This statute authorized funding for special bilingual and bicultural programs, culturally relevant teaching materials, and appropriate training and hiring of counselors. It also created an Office o...
- In 1970, a group of Indian and Chicano activists began discussions with the federal government on acquiring land for an American Indian university on a 647-acre site between Winters and Davis i...
President Richard M. Nixon delivered a speech to Congress which denounced past federal policies, pronounced the end of termination, and called for a new era of self-determination for Indian Peoples.
A diverse group of Indians seized the abandoned Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco harbor. They issued a “Proclamation to the Great White Father” in which they stated that Alcatraz was suitable a...
The first tribally-established and Indian-controlled community college in the US opened its doors to students. Two years later, Public Law 92-189 authorized Congress to appropriate $5.5 million to ...
This Act of Congress revised Public Law 280 by requiring states to obtain tribal consent prior to extending any legal jurisdiction over an Indian reservation. It also gave most protections of the ...
Shortly after the Minneapolis Anishinaabeg formed an “Indian Patrol” to monitor police activities in Indian neighborhoods, three patrol leaders organized AIM. AIM’s membership was primarily urban I...
This organization seeks to resurrect a sense of national pride among young Indian people and to instill an activist message: Indians were no longer to bow their heads in humble obedience to the BIA...
About 100 Indian people met to create the nation’s first large-scale national organization designed to monitor federal policies. Today, over 250 member tribes throughout the US work to secure for I...
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