Indian New Deal, Tribal Termination, and Urban Relocation 1934-1967
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1934
Investigation of the Canton Insane Asylum
Canton closes due to abuse of patients and deplorable conditions. The Office of Indian Affairs...Read More
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1942
Native lands used for nuclear tests, battery ranges
More than 900,000 acres of Alaska Native lands and more than 16 Indian reservations are...Read More
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1944-1986
Radiation exposure
Mining companies blast four million tons of uranium out of Navajo land. The federal government...Read More
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1946
Atomic bomb testing begins on Bikini Atoll in Marshall Islands
The U.S. drops several atomic bombs on the Marshall Islands, devastating the environment and endangering...Read More
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1947
Salmon sites and traditional lands are destroyed by dams
Dams on the Columbia, Snake, and Missouri Rivers wipe out salmon fishing sites and flood...Read More
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1949
Hoover Commission recommends terminating tribes, promoting urbanization
The Hoover Commission recommends that Natives be rapidly assimilated and integrated into mainstream society by...Read More
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1950
Former head of Japanese internment camps appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Dillon Meyer is an avid supporter of termination of tribes and the federal trust relationship.
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1951
Uranium is discovered on the Dine’ reservation
Once uranium is found in Dine’ territory, many Dine’ men are put to work in...Read More
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1954
Castle Bravo, 15-megaton hydrogen bomb blast, is detonated over Bikini Atoll
The bomb is the largest U.S. test ever, 1,300 times more destructive than the bombs...Read More
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1956-1957
Medical experimentation on Alaska Natives
From 1956 to 1957, the U.S. Air Force’s Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory conducts a study on...Read More
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1957
Seneca traditional lands protected by treaty are flooded by Kinzua Dam
The Seneca opposed the building of a dam that ends up flooding traditional homelands. Forced...Read More
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1958
Forty-eight rancherias are forced to terminate as federally recognized tribes
With termination, the Bureau of Indian Affairs withdraws economic, vocational, education, and water and sanitation...Read More
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1958
Nuclear testing continues on Native lands in the Marshall Islands
From 1946 to 1958, the United States conducts 67 tests in the Marshall Islands. If...Read More
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1961
Kinzua Dam is completed and destroys Seneca lands and burial sites
The flooding of traditional lands to which the Seneca are entitled in perpetuity through treaty...Read More