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Indian Removal Act of 1830
The law allowed the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the southern United States to remove the tribes and create federal territory. -
US Supreme Court: Worcester v. Georgia
Sovereignty was recogonized into the constitution by the Supreme Court, which excluded taxing Indian country. -
Passage of Indian Religious Crimes Code
Congress passed this law that deprived Native Americans of First Amendment rights and forbid them from practicing any religion but those approved by the white man. -
Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920
Established 62 Hawaiian homeland areas held in trust for Native Hawaiians by the state of Hawaii. -
Snyder Act of 1921
Allowed appropriations and expenditures for the administration of Indian affairs. -
Meriam Report
The first general study of Indian conditions since the 1850s, when the ethnologist and former U.S. Indian Agent Henry R. Schoolcraft had completed a six-volume work for the U.S. Congress. -
House Concurrent Resolution 108
Declared it to be the sense of the Congress that it should be policy of the United States to abolish federal supervision over American Indian tribes as soon as possible and to subject the Indians to the same laws, privileges, and responsibilities as other U.S. citizens. -
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon in December of 1971, consitituting at the time the largest land claims settlement in United States history. -
Indian Self-determination and Education Assistance Act
Authorized the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and some other government agencies to enter into contracts with, and make grants directly to, federally recognized Indian tribes. -
American Indian Religious Freedom Act
It was enacted to protect and preserve the traditional religious rights and cultural practices of American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Native Hawaiians. -
Indian Child Welfare Act
A Federal law that governs jurisdiction over the removal of Native American children from their families. -
Tribal Self-governance Act of 1994
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into annual funding agreements with the governing body of each participating tribe.