Indian Self-Determination and Self-Governance Era 1968-present
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1968
Indian Adoption Project is folded into the Adoption Resource Exchange of North America (ARENA)
This is a Child Welfare League of America coordinated effort to adopt out Native children...Read More
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1969
Federal government acknowledges fishing rights
In Sohappy v. Smith, the federal government acknowledges the right of several tribes of Native...Read More
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1972
AIM Trail of Broken Treaties caravan occupies BIA office
AIM members travel to Washington, D.C. to highlight the trail of broken treaties. They occupy...Read More
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1973-1976
U.S. government forcibly sterilizes Indian women
Between 1973 and 1976, 4 of the 12 Indian Health Service regions sterilize 3,406 American...Read More
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1979
Largest nuclear accident in U.S. on Navajo (Dine’) reservation in Church Rock, New Mexico
More than 1,100 tons of uranium waste gushes through a ruptured tailings mill dam, releasing...Read More
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1979
Dine’ uranium miners and families bear disproportionate rate of lung cancer
Prior to WWII, there had been no lung cancer among Dine’. However, the mining sites...Read More
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1996
$2.4 billion in tribal trust funds missing
The Native American Rights Fund files a class action lawsuit against the Secretary of the...Read More
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2010
Nuclear tests and bombing on Native lands
Over the previous 45 years, more than 1,000 bombs of the U.S. government exploded on...Read More
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2013
ICWA is deemed not applicable to Native biological fathers who are not custodians
In a landmark anti-ICWA ruling (Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl), the U.S. Supreme Court determines...Read More
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2016
Missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) epidemic and No More Stolen Sisters Movements
The Canadian government responds to mass protests and repeated calls for a national inquiry into...Read More
