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2004 Urban Indian teens at risk of addiction The Seattle-based Urban Indian Health Institute reports that urban Indian youth are at greater risk ... |
1996 Suit claims longstanding U.S. mismanagement of Indian land leases A class action lawsuit filed by 300,000 American Indians claims that the United States has mismanaged ... |
1991 Custer eliminated from battlefield name Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument becomes the new name of the former Custer Battlefield National ... |
1978 ‘Longest Walk’ draws attention to American Indian concerns Several hundred American Indian activists and supporters march for five months from San Francisco to ... |
1953 Congress seeks to abolish tribes, relocate American Indians Congress passes a resolution beginning a federal policy of termination, through which American Indian ... |
1953 Dam floods hospital, one-quarter of reservation The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completes the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River at Fort Berthold Reservation ... |
1899 Henry Crow Dog II is born Henry Crow Dog II will become a traditional medicine man of the Lakota. Despite the individual land- ... |
1890 Native population plunges In the U.S., Native population falls to an all-time low. The 1890 census records 237,196 Native people— ... |
1889 Second Ghost Dance movement widespread among tribes Wovoka, a Paiute, leads the second Ghost Dance movement. Like the first, it seeks to bring about the ... |
1887 U.S. subdivides reservation land; sells off surplus Congress passes the General Allotment Act, better known as the Dawes Severalty Act, which divides reservations ... |