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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction 01. Smallpox Among American Indians 02. Early Explorers and Early Conquest, 1535-1540 03. First European Settlements and Indian Revolt, 1565-1598 04. First Significant English and French Settlements, 1607-1620 05. Pocahontas, 1607 06. Massasoit, Pilgrims and the First Peace Treaty, 1621 07. Powhatan War in Virginia, 1622-1644 08. Pequot War, 1637 09. Iroquois Wars, 1638-1650 10. Metacoms (King Philips) War, 1675-1676 11. Pueblo (Pops) Revolt, 1680 12. Abenaki Wars in Maine, 1675-1748 13. Carolina Indian Wars, 1711-1716 14. The Natchez Massacre, 1729 15. Albany Congress and Plan of Union, 1754 16. French and Indian War, 1754-1763 17. The Royal Proclamation and Line of 1763 18. Pontiacs War, 1763-1766 19. Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1768 20. The Quebec Act, 1774 21. Lord Dunmores War with the Shawnee, 1774 22. The Boston Tea Party, Mohawks and Tammany and 1773 23. Sullivans Destruction of the Iroquois, 1779 24. The Treaty of Greenville, 1786-1795 25. Indians and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 26. American Indians and the U.S. Constitution, 1787 27. The Treaty of New York, 1790 28. Indian Trade and Intercourse Act(s), 1790-1834 29. Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794-1795 30. The Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1830 31. Tenskwatawa and the Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811 32. The Death of Tecumseh and the Battle of Thames, October 5, 1813 33. Creek, or Red Stick, War, 1813-1814 34. Sequoyahs Syllabary, 1821 35. Johnson v. MIntosh, 1823 36. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 1824 37. The Cherokee Phoenix, 1828-1834 38. Indian Removal Act, 1830 39. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831 40. Worcester v. Georgia, 1832 41. Black Hawk War, 1832 42. The Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 43. Seminole Wars of 1817-1858 44. Stand Watie, Confederate Cherokee, 1861-1865 45. Santee (Dakota) Sioux Uprising, 1862 46. The Long Walk of the Navajo, 1863-1868 47. Ely S. Parker, 1863-71 48. Sand Creek and the Cheyenne Arapaho War, 1864-1865 49. The Treaties of Medicine Lodge and Fort Laramie, 1866-1869 50. The Indian Appropriation Act of 1871 and President Grants Quaker Peace Policy 51. Wars in the Pacific Northwest, 1864-1878 52. Red River and Apache Wars, 1874-1886 53. The Lakota War for the Black Hills, 1876-1877 54. The Nez Perce War, 1877 55. Womens National Indian Association, 1879 56. Richard Pratt and the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1904 57. Indian Courts and Major Crimes 1883 and 1885 58. The General Allotment Act (Dawes Act), 1887 59. Wovoka and the Ghost Dance Movement, 1889 60. Wounded Knee I, 1890 61. Indians and the Wild West Show, 1893 62. Curtis Act, 1898 63. Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 1903 64. The Burke Act, 1906 65. Winters Doctrine: Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908) 66. Society of American Indians, 1911 67. Jim Thorpe and the 1912 Olympics 68. World War One, Indian Involvement, 1917-1918 69. The Native American Church, 1918 70. Indian Citizenship Act, 1924 71. Indian Defense League of America, 1925 and the Jay Treaty, 1794 72. Meriam Report, 1928 73. Indian Reorganization Act, 1934 74. Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 1935 75. World War II: Indian Involvement, 1941-1945 76. National Congress of American Indians, 1944 77. Indian Claims Commission, 1946 78. The Indian Urban Relocation Program, 1948 79. The Termination Policy, 1953 80. Public Law 280, 1953 81. Indian Health Service, 1955 82. American Indian Chicago Conference (AICC), 1961 83. National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), 1961 84. American Indian Movement, 1968 85. Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA), 1968 86. Occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1969 87. State of Michigan v. William Jondreau, 1971 88. Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), 1971 89. Trail of Broken Treaties, 1972 90. Wounded Knee II, 1973 91. U.S. v. Washington State (Boldt Decision) 1974 92. Leonard Peltier and RESMURS, 1975 93. Indian Self Determination Act 1975 94. The Murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, 1976 95. American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA), 1978 96. Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), 1978 97. U.S. v. Michigan (the Fox Decision), 1979 98. California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, 1987 99. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 1990 100. Native American Languages Act of 1990 (NALA)