1772

Sermon release

1824

Bureau of Indian affairs established in the WAR dept

1830

Indian removal act

1887

General allotment Act or DAWES act-

provided for the division of tribally held lands into individually-owned parcels and opening "surplus" lands to settlement by non-Indians and development by railroads.

1924

Indians gain citizenship

1928

Meriam Report-

a narrative and statistical criticism of the ineffectiveness of the Dawes Act as well as conditions on reservations and in boarding schools

1934

John Joseph Mathews Sundown

-semi autobiographical Chal no longer feels at home when he returns to his tribal community. The novel portrays Chal's feelings of alienation and hopelessness as his life takes a downward turn.

1950

Relocation probal begins

1953

Termination policy resolution passed in congress

subject to state and federal taxes as well as laws, from which they had previously been exempt^{. (indians better as citizens)}

1968

3 answers

1. House made of dawn

2. American Indian movement es

3. Indian civil rights act

60= hippi consciousness--> civil rights

1978

religious freedom act

1985

Wilma Mankiller- First women chief of cherokee

1988

Indian gaming regulation- provided money for indian schools and communities

1992

First "returning the Gift" gathering in

Norman OK

2004

US vs Lara

- rec tribes legal power over non-indian on their territory

2010

Cobell Settlement- 1.5 billion to individuals for mismanagement of royalties also funds for dept of interior to purchase fractionaded land

Louise Owens

work

influence

owen sings with wolves; which have sharp vision for hunting for bones  @ night around the dark river

1. wolfsong

2. the sharpest sight

3. the bone game

4. Nightland

5. Dark RIver

choctaw _cherokee influence

Gerald Vizenor

3 works

1. Woodarrows: indian and whites in the new fur trade

2. darkness in st. Louis bearheart

3. ***The last lecture on the edge- Anishinaabe

Chippewa

V in Vizenor has several edges- last lecture

Simon Ortiz

2

influence

1. howbah indians
2. fightin

O in Ortiz = hOwbah, simon cal lights to "fight"

pueblo influenced

Louise Erdrich

3 + 4 others

influence

1. Love medicine
2. the beet queen
3. tracks
4. ***Last Report on Miracles at Little No Horse

Chippewa reservation, lots of contemp ref

Rich in Erdrich--> rich people likes horses (in title), and they

Paula Gunn Allen

1 work

influen theme

1. the woman who owned the shadows

Pueblo

paula gun, guns are used for outlaws who live in the shadows (women)

Linda Hogan

3 works

1. mean spirit
2. ***solarstorms
3. power

Chikasaw

Hogan- strong women who causes a solar stom out of anger

Sherman Alexie

4 works

1. ***the lone ranger and tonto fist fight in heaven
2. smoke signals movie

Spokane

very anti romantic dark

alexie- from NSCS, looks like she always gets into first fights, espically with heaven (lack morals)= depressing

Thomas king

5 works

influence

1. Medicine river
2. green grass
3. running water
4. truth and bright water
5. one good story, that one

canadian first nation inspired

chinese king (yellow emperor)= medicine ricer, ideas of herbs and green grass with running waterfalls, speaks of truth and light, great story

Diane Glancy

1. Aunt Parnetta's Electric blisters

Cherokee

Momaday

House Made of Dawn

Cherokee

mom a day--> fixes house @ dawn

Leslie Marmon Silko

Ceremony

pueblo

silk is work @ Ceremonies as sacred right

widely read american indian author of 20th century

"american indian" author's responsibilities from the responsibilities of a "white" author?

2 non-ficture prose writing that have been published by american indian writers since 1472?

1. journalism

2. essays