General Jicarilla 1861 – 1870 1968: Treaty of 1860s: Bosque Redondo Approximately 500 were at Bosque Redondo. 1868: Mescaleros were allowed to return to their former homeland. 1871 – 1880 1871: 1873: Agreement 1871: Agent A.J. Decentralization of was entered Curtis reached an between Jicarillas agreement where 1875: The position and the U.S. Mescaleros were of interpreter is 1874: Jicarilla allowed to retain all established for Reservation their stock, get a established in school, and retain 1879: The railroad northwestern NM land for cultivation comes to NM 1876: Decision was in return for 1880: Laguna abrogated remaining at peace people migrate to in the vicinity of Isleta Pueblo Fort Stanton. 1873: A reservation consisting mostly of the eastern slopes of the White and Sacramento Mountains was created by executive order. 1877: Smallpox epidemic 1877: Desert Land Act; who lived west of Mescaleros were ordered to take up residence with San Carlos ; didn’t comply; Army disarmed and imprisoned the Mescalero 1877: Day school established at Mescalero 1880: Mescalero ordered to Fort Stanton 1881 – 1890 1882: Executive 1881: Albuquerque 1883: Jicarilla were 1883: Jicarilla were Order establishes a Indian School in removed to the ordered to report 2.4 million acre Duranes Mescalero to the Mescalero reservation for use 1882: AIS moves to Reservation reservation and occupancy by 12th and Menaul 1886: Jicarilla 1883: Tertio- Hope and “other decided to return to Millennial such Indians…” northern NM Celebration in 1883: Religious Santa Fe and a large Crime Code contingent of 1885: Major Crimes Mescalero went to Act SF. 1885: A court of 1884: Boarding Indian Offenses is school at Mescalero set up was established. 1887: General 1884: Christianity Allotment Act is introduced when (Dawes) a priest from Lincoln baptized 173 Mescaleros into Roman Catholic church. 1887: Mescalero youth taken to Albuquerque Indian School

1891 – 1900 1900: Pojoaque Pueblo is abandoned and survivors migrate to Nambe 1901 – 1910 1906: Burke Act 1910: Enabling Act 1908: The San Juan 1903: Government 1903: 37 Lipan 1908: Winters v. 1911: Southern (Shiprock) boarding school Apaches were Pueblos Agency is Boarding school built in Dulce brought into established in opened 1913: Small farm Mescalero to live Albuquerque. 1909: Shiprock and domestic 1909: Roosevelt Northern Pueblos Trading Fair cottage were issued Executive are administered developed to teach Order which added through offices in agriculture and the reservation to Santa Fe domestic arts an adjoining 1907-1908: Two national forest reservation day 1913: 187 schools were Chiricahua chose to established at settle in Mescalero Dulce and LaJara and others took allotments in 1911 – 1920 1919: U.S. 1912: NM is Citizenship for WWI admitted to the Veterans Union (47th state) 1913: United States v. Sandoval (reversed Joseph case of 1876) 1921 – 1930 1921: Snyder Act 1922: 1921-1927: Navajo 1921: Dutch 1922: Indian title to 1922: Bursum Bill Reorganization Tribal Council Reformed Church the land was 1924: Indian meeting of the All created; chapters of America confirmed. Citizenship Act Indian Pueblo are established established school 1928: Meriam Council is held at 1922: Oil in Dulce Report Santo Domingo discovered on 1929: Stocks Crash 1924: Pueblo Lands Navajo land Board 1923: Navajo Tribal Council changed with U.S. Government involved (interest in oil and gas) 1930: U.S. Senate Investigating Committee confirmed the systematic kidnapping of Navajo children to put them in boarding schools 1931 – 1940 1930s: Creation of 1931:Original land 1933: Livestock 1937: Organized day schools in NM grant to Zuni Reduction first formal 1933-45: Indian Pueblo is confirmed 1934: Legislation government, New Deal 1933: The land of adds certain lands adopted a 1933: John Collier Pojoaque Pueblo is and defines the constitution, and appointed as Indian restored boundaries of the bylaws Commissioner 1933: Land patent in 1937: Corporate 1934: Johnson- is issued to Zuni charter adopted O’Malley Act Pueblo by the U.S. 1934: Navajo with formal name 1934: Wheeler- 1935: The United Mounted Police was of Howard Act (IRA) Pueblos Agency is formed. 1935: Indian Arts established in 1935: Navajo and Crafts Board Albuquerque by the Nation rejects IRA BIA 1936: Navajo Patrol replaces Navajo Mounted Police 1936: District Six is recognized as encompassing all of the lands exclusively occupied by the 1933: District six is expanded and Navajo families are forced to move out and never compensated or provided replacement homes 1936: Window Rock is chosen for the site of the Navajo Central Agency (later Navajo Tribal Council) 1937: Navajo Tribal Council was formed 1941 – 1950 1941-45: U.S. in 1943: Los Alamos 1941: Idea for 1948: Apache World War II National Labs is Navajo Code Nation v. United 1941-45: All established Talkers States Docket No. American Indian 1947: Isleta Pueblo 1942-45: Navajo 22 men were required Constitution is Code Talkers in to register for the approved by WWII draft; Refusals to Secretary of 1942: Joe enlist by some Interior Kieyoomia , Seminoles, 1948: Indians in captured by and Papagos NM granted Japanese; Bataan suffrage Death March 1946: Indian Claims 1949: Laguna survivor; tortured Commission Act Pueblo constitution for access to code is approved even though he was not a Code Talker 1942: Navajo Code Talker the first to hear that the Atomic Bomb exploded over Hiroshima 1947: BIA reported that 50% of Navajo children had starved and that 50% of new born Navajo children died before the age of 5 1947: Informal Indian placement program (Morman) 1948: Navajo granted suffrage 1950: Navajo Hopi Rehabilitation Act 1950: Intermountain Intertribal Boarding School

1951 – 1960 1951: Korean 1952: First lease 1951: Anne Dodge 1958: Jicarilla 1953: All Mescalero Conflict between Laguna Wauneka, first Apache Tribe of the children were in 1952: Relocation Pueblo and woman elected to Jicarilla Apache public schools that program is Anaconda Company Navajo Tribal Reservation v. serve the Mescalero established by the (uranium) Council United States of area BIA 1951: Uranium America Docket No. 1953: House discovered on the 22-A Concurrent Navajo reservation 1960: Constitution Resolution 108 1952: The Morman is revised and 1953: Public Law Church inaugurated accepted with new 280 the Indian Student provisions 1953: Commission Placement Program 1963: Constitution of Indian Affairs is 1953: Navajo Tribal was amended established by the Scholarship NM State program begins Legislature 1959: Native 1954: Relocation to American Church v. Urban Areas Navajo Tribal Council 1959: Navajo Police Department replaces Navajo Patrol 1959: The Navajo Times was published 1961 – 1970 1961: Task Force 1960: Flood Control 1961: Navajo Tribal 1968: Constitution 1964: Tribal on Indian Affairs Act of 1960 Museum amended constitution was authorized the established at revised Window Rock 1961: National construction of 1963: Annie Dodge Indian Youth Cochiti Lake Wauneka presented Council created 1962: SFIS is with Presidential 1966: AIM is replaced by IAIE Medal of Freedom formed in 1965: The All 1963: Navajo Tribal Minneapolis Indian Pueblo Zoo opened 1968: Civil Rights Council adopts 1968: Navajo Tribe Act (Titles II – VII) constitution and becomes Navajo 1969: Report on bylaws Nation and adopts Indian Education 1965: Construction Navajo flag 1969: Activists of Cochiti Lake and 1968: Navajo begin a 19 month Dam began Community College occupation of 1973: Water from opens Alcatraz Cochiti Lake was 1969: The Navajo 1970: Nixon’s impounded language was Special Message on declassified as a top Indian Affairs 1970: Return of secret military code 1970: Activists Blue Lake Lands to 1970: The Navajo occupy Mount Code Talkers Rushmore Association was organized 1971 – 1980 1971: Alaska Native 1976: AIPC takes 1972: U.S. v. Claims Settlement administrative Kabinto: More than Act control of AIS 50 Navajo families 1972: Indian 1980: The Pueblos are evicted from Education Act observe the 300th District Six without 1972: Trail of anniversary of the relocation Broken Treaties 1680 assistance Caravan Arrives in 1973: Larry Casuse, Washington, D.C. co-founder of 1972: AIM opens Indians Against Survival Schools Exploitation, 1973: Activists murdered in Gallup. occupy Wounded 1974: Congress Knee authorizes partition 1974: International of the surface rights Treaty Council in the JUA. 1974: Indian 1975: Occupation Financing Act of Fairchild Plant to 1974: Students protest the layoff Rights and Due and treatment of Process Procedures 140 Navajo 1975: Indian Self- workers Determination and 1974: Chokecherry Education Canyon murder of Assistance Act three Navajo men 1975: The Council 1975: Civil Rights of Energy Resource Commission release Tribes (CERT) is “The Farmington organized Report: A Conflict 1976: Indian of Cultures” Crimes Act of 1976 1979: The largest 1976: Indian Health nuclear accident in Care Improvement the U.S. occurred at Act a United Nuclear 1978: American Company milling Indian Religious plan in Church Freedom Act Rock, NM 1978: Federal 1979: Mutton Man Acknowledgment of cartoon strip is Indian Tribes developed 1978: Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act 1978: Education Amendments Act of 1978 Title XI Indian Education 1978: Indian Child Welfare Act 1978: Longest Walk begins 1979: Archaeological Resources Protection Act

1981 – 1990 1986: Report of the 1981: AIS is closed 1990: Due to Task Force on and moves to reform, the first Indian Education IAIE/Santa Fe Navajo President is Development 1987: Verna elected: P. Zah 1988: Report on Williamson is BIA Education elected first woman 1988: Tribal Self- governor of Isleta Governance Act Pueblo 1990: Smithsonian returns 3,500 1988: Tribally photos taken in the Controlled Schools 19th and 20th Act of 1988 centuries to Zuni 1988: Indian Pueblo Gaming Regulatory 1990: Zuni Pueblo Act celebrates the 1990: Native passage of the Zuni American Graves Land Conservation Protection and Act of 1990 Repatriation Act

1991 – 2000 1992: National 1993: Peter Coalition of Racism McDonald is in Sports and Media sentenced to 14 forms years in federal 1994: Indian Self- prison . Determination Act 1994: Robert Amendments Blackgoat is named 1994: An Act to “America’s Unsung Amend the Woman” American Indian 1995: Peter Religious Freedom McDonald is Act to Provide for pardoned by Albert the Traditional Use Hale of by 1999: Navajo Indians for Nation filed a Religious Purposes lawsuit agains the 1996: Native Peabody Western American House Coal Company Assistance Act 2000: BIA’s 175th 1999: Navajo birthday-Apology Nation sued 9 of Never Again U.S.’s tobacco giants 2000: Indian Tribal 1999: Navajo Economic Nation Excise Fuel Development and Tax is passed Contract 2000: Navajo Code Encouragement Act Talker GI Joe doll 2000: Indian Land makes it debut Consolidation Act 2000: Annie Dodge Amendments Wauneka passes away

2001 – 2010 2004: Esther 2001: McDonald Martinez Native received American commutation from Languages Clinton Preservation Act 2001: Navajo Code (PL 109-394) Talkers receive 2007: Native Congressional American Home Medals Ownership 2005: State of NM Opportunity Act of and Navajo Nation 2007 sign a water right 2007: UNDRIP settlement (San adopted by the UN Juan River Basin) General Assembly 2008: NM officially 2008: Code Talkers adopts a Navajo Recognition Act textbook,Dine Bizaad Binahoo aah 2009: Bennett (Rediscovering the Freeze Repeal Act Navajo Language) of 2009 2010 – 2018 2010: Tribal Law 2017: Final decree and Order Act of the Aamdt case 2010: U.S. acts on (State of NM, ex rel. UNDRIP with State Engineer v. statement of Aamodt) support 2011: Keystone XL Pipeline Protesters launch campaign 2016: Standing Rock Sioux oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)