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1860 - 1890
1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty - established land for Kiowa and Commanche. 4/5 NA males had to agree for treaty to change.
1868 Fort Laramie Treaty - established 'Great Sioux Reservation', 3/4 of the male population had to agree.
Homestead Act 1862 - gave free land to farmers in return for them farming for five years.
Plains Wars - Sand Creek Massacre 186, Cheyenne Uprising 1963, Battle of Little Bighorn 1976, Battle of Wounded Knee 1890.
Reservation Policy
1890 - 1930
Dawes Act 1887 - Allocated lands to NA to encourage self-sufficiency. Granted citizenship but 78 million acres lost, broke down reservations and only benefited NA with good land.
Lone Wolf vs Hitchcock - high court's seal of approval upon forced allotment of Indian Lands.
Burke Act 1906 - allowed govt. to sell NA land to NA with white heritage.
WW1 - Choctaw Code Talkers and Indian Soldier Act
Indian Citizenship Act 1924
1933 - 1945
Meriam Report 1928 - Condemned the allotment policy and criticized the dreadful conditions on reservations.
Indian Reorganization Act - Indians allowed more influence over administration on reservations, overthrew 1883 law that banned ceremonial dances, curtained sale of land to individuals, 5 million acres restored.
1950 - 1961
Termination - NA no longer wards of the state, Indian Relocation Act and Vocational Training Act 1956, Approx 13,000 out of 400,000 NA affected, as many as 750,000 migrated to cities in 1950's - 60's.
Urbanization - Unemployment 42% in 1968, low life expectancy - 44 against national average of 64, spiritually bereft city life, shanty towns.
1960s
1960s fish-ins - 1974 decision for 50% of fish in Western Washington went to tribes.
Kennedy and Johnson - Kennedy increases funding for NA education and adult vocational funding, National Council on Indian Opportunity and 1964/68
Nixon - Ended Termination, returned Indian lands, positive discrimination for NA.
American Indian Movement
Indian Education Assistance Act 1975
Religious Freedom Act 1978
Indian Child Welfare Act 1978
Native American Rights Fund
1990 Graves Protection Act
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