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  1. 1921
    Congress funds American Indian health care
    In legislation commonly known as the Snyder Act, Congress authorizes funds for “the relief of distress ...
  2. 1921
    Congress sets aside land for Native Hawaiian homesteading
    In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, the U.S. Congress recognizes Native Hawaiian fishing rights. The ...
  3. 1924
    American Indians granted U.S. citizenship
    Inspired by the high rate of American Indian enlistment during World War I, President Calvin Coolidge ...
  4. 1924
    Medical division established in Office of Indian Affairs
    The Office of Indian Affairs creates a separate medical division to administer the growing number of ...
  5. 1924
    Professional nurses hired for reservations
    The Office of Indian Affairs begins hiring professional field nurses to care for Native peoples on reservations.
  6. 1926
    Funding to improve newborn survival reaches Hawai‘i
    The U.S. Congress expands the 1921 Maternity and Infancy Act to include the Territory of Hawai‘i. The ...
  7. 1927
    Clean water, sewers needed on most reservations
    After a century of the federal government moving American Indians onto reservations with inadequate ...
  8. 1927
    Trachoma surgery proves too dangerous
    The Office of Indian Affairs begins a national campaign in 1924 to eliminate the infectious eye disease ...
  9. 1929
    U.S. directs care to American Indian mothers and babies
    The Office of Indian Affairs establishes its first preventive medicine program, which emphasizes maternal ...
  10. 1928
    New hospital serves Alaska Natives along Yukon River
    The U.S. Bureau of Education builds a 20-bed hospital in Mountain Village to serve the Alaska Native ...
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