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1966 Alaska Federation of Natives established to speak with one voice A statewide conference of more than 400 Alaska Natives, representing several regional associations, ... |
1965 Community Health Representative program inspires similar programs At the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the Oglala Lakota establish the first community health ... |
1964 Police brutalize tribal fishermen in Washington State Local police brutalize tribal fishermen on the Puyallup River at Frank’s Landing, near Tacoma, Washington. ... |
1961 Alaska Native organizations unify; call for federal recognition of rights Three regional Alaska Native organizations—the Alaska Native Brotherhood, the Dena Nena Henash, and ... |
1959 Washington State challenges tribal treaty fishing rights Washington State authorities forcefully evict Puyallup, Nisqually, and other tribal subsistence fishermen ... |
1953 Congress seeks to abolish tribes, relocate American Indians Congress passes a resolution beginning a federal policy of termination, through which American Indian ... |
1945 Alaska’s territorial legislature adopts anti-discrimination law Elizabeth Peratrovich, president of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, testifies before the Alaska Territorial ... |
1944 Alberta Schenck sits in ‘Whites Only’ theater section At a time when Alaska businesses routinely post signs reading, “No dogs, no Indians,” Alberta Schenck, ... |
1944 National Congress of American Indians established The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is founded. A generation educated in off-reservation ... |
1941 Hawai‘i under martial law; U.S. military takes sacred lands Japan bombs Pearl Harbor at Honolulu, Hawai‘i. The United States declares war on Japan and enters World ... |