This 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 issued this statement to reaffirm the American Indian Religious Freedom Act policy and protection of Indian sacred sites.
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 ...
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 statute encouraged Indian tribes to mine their lands in a manner that would help them become economically self-sufficient.
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 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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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