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  1. 2004
    Urban Indian teens at risk of addiction
    The Seattle-based Urban Indian Health Institute reports that urban Indian youth are at greater risk ...
  2. 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 ...
  3. 1991
    Custer eliminated from battlefield name
    Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument becomes the new name of the former Custer Battlefield National ...
  4. 1978
    ‘Longest Walk’ draws attention to American Indian concerns
    Several hundred American Indian activists and supporters march for five months from San Francisco to ...
  5. 1953
    Congress seeks to abolish tribes, relocate American Indians
    Congress passes a resolution beginning a federal policy of termination, through which American Indian ...
  6. 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 ...
  7. 1899
    Henry Crow Dog II is born
    Henry Crow Dog II will become a traditional medicine man of the Lakota. Despite the individual land- ...
  8. 1890
    Native population plunges
    In the U.S., Native population falls to an all-time low. The 1890 census records 237,196 Native people— ...
  9. 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 ...
  10. 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 ...
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