Key: Help, Hinder, key turning points
NATIVE AMERICANS
SOCIAL ECONOMIC POLITICAL Date range
1. 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, 1. Homesteads Act gave 1. Dawes Act 1887 - gave 1865-1900
great sioux reserve - Black away 280 million acres of NAs citizenship rights if
Hills into Great Sioux Native American land they owned land
Reservation 2. Battle of Little bighorn
2. 1867 Medicine Lodge 1876
Treaty- disrupted
nomadic lifestyle, gov
more autonomous over na
3. Great Plains Wars -
assimilation
1. 1911 Society of American 1. World War 1 1914-18 1. Lone Wolf V Hitchcock 1900-1920
Indians 2. Muskogee convention 1903- gov had the right to
1905 tried to retain s.d. revoke all treaties. KCA
But congress overruled, alliance of tribes, land
and 2 mill acres land from 3 mill acres to 3000
opened up to settlers. by 1920, +60%
unemployment rate.
1. 1934 Wheeler-Howard 1. Great Depression 1929- 1. 1924 Indian Citizenship 1920-1940
Act - overturned 1883 law unemployment for NA on Act- however assimilation
banning tribal ceremonies reservations- +50%
2. Meriam Report 1928- 2. 80% of NA land had been
Hoover closed off lost to white settler by
reservation boarding 1920
schools
1. Policy of termination 1. 1956 Indian Relocation 1. 1948 Harrison v Laveen - 1940-1960
1953, Menominee tribe Act - program of looked into NA voter
officially terminated, full vocational training for registration, positive but
, assimilation NAs who ‘chose’ to no impact
2. Indian Claims relocate to urban areas
Commission 1946 - 2. World War II- 100k
internal divisions, also served in army, 75k went
financial compensation to urban areas to work,
over returning lands- but Japanese Americans
received 370 claims were forced into reserves
and discrimination, and
NCAI created 1946.
1. 1969-1971 Siege of 1. Affirmative action began 1. 1975 Indian Self- 1960-1980
Alcatraz, red power- 1968 Determination Act (Ford)
900k declared themselves 2. Trail of broken Treaties/ - tribal gov allowed
NA 1934, 1.9million by Occupation of BIA 1972 2. Nixon appoints Louis
1990 pushed Nixon reforms- Bruce Jr, Mohawk NA as
2. 1978 Indian Child Welfare increased BIA budget Commander of Indian
Act- ended adoption 225%, and 1975 education Affairs 1969
policy act.
1. Charrier V Bell 1986, led 1. Indian Gaming 1. Seminole V Butterworth 1980-1992
to 1990 Graves Protection Regulatory Act 1988, but 1982
Act- returned bones of Reagan cut NA funds 82%
19000 NA to their tribes 2. Native capitalism
NATIVE AMERICANS
SOCIAL ECONOMIC POLITICAL Date range
1. 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, 1. Homesteads Act gave 1. Dawes Act 1887 - gave 1865-1900
great sioux reserve - Black away 280 million acres of NAs citizenship rights if
Hills into Great Sioux Native American land they owned land
Reservation 2. Battle of Little bighorn
2. 1867 Medicine Lodge 1876
Treaty- disrupted
nomadic lifestyle, gov
more autonomous over na
3. Great Plains Wars -
assimilation
1. 1911 Society of American 1. World War 1 1914-18 1. Lone Wolf V Hitchcock 1900-1920
Indians 2. Muskogee convention 1903- gov had the right to
1905 tried to retain s.d. revoke all treaties. KCA
But congress overruled, alliance of tribes, land
and 2 mill acres land from 3 mill acres to 3000
opened up to settlers. by 1920, +60%
unemployment rate.
1. 1934 Wheeler-Howard 1. Great Depression 1929- 1. 1924 Indian Citizenship 1920-1940
Act - overturned 1883 law unemployment for NA on Act- however assimilation
banning tribal ceremonies reservations- +50%
2. Meriam Report 1928- 2. 80% of NA land had been
Hoover closed off lost to white settler by
reservation boarding 1920
schools
1. Policy of termination 1. 1956 Indian Relocation 1. 1948 Harrison v Laveen - 1940-1960
1953, Menominee tribe Act - program of looked into NA voter
officially terminated, full vocational training for registration, positive but
, assimilation NAs who ‘chose’ to no impact
2. Indian Claims relocate to urban areas
Commission 1946 - 2. World War II- 100k
internal divisions, also served in army, 75k went
financial compensation to urban areas to work,
over returning lands- but Japanese Americans
received 370 claims were forced into reserves
and discrimination, and
NCAI created 1946.
1. 1969-1971 Siege of 1. Affirmative action began 1. 1975 Indian Self- 1960-1980
Alcatraz, red power- 1968 Determination Act (Ford)
900k declared themselves 2. Trail of broken Treaties/ - tribal gov allowed
NA 1934, 1.9million by Occupation of BIA 1972 2. Nixon appoints Louis
1990 pushed Nixon reforms- Bruce Jr, Mohawk NA as
2. 1978 Indian Child Welfare increased BIA budget Commander of Indian
Act- ended adoption 225%, and 1975 education Affairs 1969
policy act.
1. Charrier V Bell 1986, led 1. Indian Gaming 1. Seminole V Butterworth 1980-1992
to 1990 Graves Protection Regulatory Act 1988, but 1982
Act- returned bones of Reagan cut NA funds 82%
19000 NA to their tribes 2. Native capitalism
