Native American Timeline (1492-1999) < LINK

" ." Gary Kapp Original Western, Landscape, Wildlfie and Native American Indian Oil Painting Art at Wilcox Gallery. N.p., n.d. Web.

"North American Indian Timeline (1492-1999)." North American Indian Timeline (1492-1999). N.p., n.d. Web.

Trail of Tears
1838

The continuation of the Native American removal process were the last of the Creeks were sent out from their homelands in Georgia to Oklahoma.  Nearly a quarter of their population did not survive the journey.

"Trail of Tears." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web.

"Trail of Tears." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web.

Occupation of Alcatraz
1969

The occupation of Alcatraz was done by the group, Indians of All Tribes (IAT).  The occupation lasted for nineteen month, beginning on November 20, 1969 and ending on June 11, 1971 when in was ended forcibly by the U.S. government.

It is believed that the Native Americans had wished to make the recently closed prison into a cultural center or maybe even a university for native studies.


"Alcatraz Pays Tribute to Indian Occupation." SFGate. N.p., n.d. Web.

"American Indian Movement's Demands during Their Occupation of Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, Ca, 1969 (primary Source Document)."Historymartinezs Blog. N.p., n.d. Web.

"Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism." Warrior Publications. N.p., n.d. Web.

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Trail of Broken Treaties

Trail of Tears 2
1972

This was a cross-country protest in the United States by American Indians and First Nations organizations that took place in the autumn of 1972. It was designed to bring attention to American Indian issues, such as treaty rights, living standards, and inadequate housing.

"UP Close ~ AIM -A Movement of Civil Rights & a Revival of Identity." The River Moved. N.p., n.d. Web.

"Broken Treaties." Broken Treaties. N.p., n.d. Web.

"Babylon Falling • Wounded Knee, 1973.  Photo by Camilla Smith. ..."Babylon Falling. N.p., n.d. Web.

Wounded Knee Occupation
1973

On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, an estimate of 200 Sioux Native Americans, led by member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days.  Wounded Knee was the site of the 1890 massacre of 200 Sioux by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry.

"- American Indian Movement - AIM -." - American Indian Movement - AIM -. N.p., n.d. Web.

"America's History in the Making." — Resource Archive. N.p., n.d. Web.

American Indian Movement

The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an organization that was founded in 1968 and dedicated to the Native American civil rights movement.  The groups main purpose is to preserve the Indian culture and traditions, and enforce the use of all treaties created with the United States.

"American Indian Movement." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005, "American Indian Movement." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 2008, "American Indian Movement." Dictionary of American History. 2003, and "American Indian Movement." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Ed.. 2013. "American Indian Movement."Encyclopedia.com. HighBeam Research, 01 Jan. 2005. Web.

"American Indian Movement (AIM)   Tags: 1960s, 1970s, American Indians,
           Ojibwe  ." Overview. N.p., n.d. Web.

"Document Friday: 1992 "Threat Advisory - Columbus Day in Latin America""UNREDACTED. 
       N.p., n.d. Web.

Eddie Benton Banai
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An Ojibway-Anishinable Native American of the Fish Clan from the Lac Courte Orelles Reservation.  Banai is a strong advocate for a culture-based educational system and for the relearning of the Anishinabemowin language.  He is the presiding Grand Chief of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge and the founder of the Red School House (an Indian school for children K-12, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota).  Banai co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) and what the movements spiritual leader.  He also is the author of The Mishomis Book which is the first book of its kind to provide an understanding of the sacred Midewiwin teachings.

"Edward Benton-BanaiGrand Chief, Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge." Three-Fires.Net – Our Leadership. N.p., n.d. Web.

Clyde Bellecourt

Born May 1936 

A co-founder and Director of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and a major figure in the Occupation of Wounded Knee, that occurred in 1973.  Bellecourt was a founder in the Indian School System, Legal Rights Center, and the International Indian Treaty Council.  He is the director of the Peacemaker Center for Indian Youth and the AIM Patrol (provides security for the Minneapolis Indian Community).  Bellecourt has been an organizer of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media and is also the founder and current chairman of the Board of American Indians (OIC).

"Clyde Bellecourt." Clyde Bellecourt. N.p., n.d. Web.

Dennis Banks

Born April 1937

A Native American who was a teacher, lecturer, activist, and author.  He is an Anishinabe, Ojibwa.  Banks was born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota and co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968.  He established the movement to protect the American Indians' traditional ways of life and to engage in legal cases to protect the treaty rights of Native; such as, hunting, fishing, trapping, and wild riceing.

 - "BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF DENNIS BANKS." Nowa Cumig Institute. American Indian Movement, n.d. Web.

   Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun.
Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, “Never! Never!”

—TECUMSEH OF THE SHAWNEES

We Are Still Here. N.d. Indian Country. Web.

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. Print.