1824 - Creation of the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs)
1830 - Indian Removal Act
July 1845 - phrase "Manifest Destiny" is coined
1851 - Indian Appropriations Act (allocating funds to move to Western reservations)
1864 - Sandy Creek Massacre
1871 - rider to Indian Appropriations Act: no recognition of additional Native tribes or subsequent treaties
1876 - Battle of Little Big Horn
1890 - Sitting Bull is killed; Wounded Knee Massacre
1907 - Charles Curtis becomes the first Native American US Senator (will later become vice-President in 1929)
1968 - Indian Civil Rights Act by President Lindy Johnson
1969: Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn wins the Pulitzer Prize and a powerful new wave of Native American writing surges. Native-American Renaissance: read more about it here http://nativeamericanlit.com/
and finally, for this century's most well-known Native American writer (Sherman Alexie) see what he has to say about his tradition:
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