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Walk around the room to find events in native american history. Put the events in order on this timeline.
Year Event
1 1492 Native Americans lived all over the US when Europeans arrived.
2 1776 Independence of USA. The Native americans were not considered citizens
2 1785 Treaty of Hopewell. The new US government signed a treaty with three tribes drawing a
border and promising not to settle on indian land
4 1819 Civilization Fund Act. The US government gave money to christian organizations to educate
and civilize the native americans
5 1830 Indian Removal act of 1830. The US government act to trade new land for the homes of the
native americans
6 1840 Trail of tears. Native americans were forced to walk hundreds of miles to new land.
Thousands died on the way.
7 1850 indian wars
8 Indian Appropriations Act. The US government decided that native americans couldn’t have
1871 independent nations x
9 Indian Citizenship Act.
1924
10 1945 Code talkers
11 1956 Indian Relocation Act. The US government bribed native americans to move from their
reservations. Many ended up poor and suffered discrimination after moving
12 2017 Native American are still fighting oppression and discrimination of European descendants.
Everything You Need to Know About
Indigenous Peoples Day From Time Magazine - [Link]
Lisa Marie Segarra
Aug 31, 2017 MIRIAM
Los Angeles just became the latest city to adopt Indigenous Peoples Day in favor of Columbus Day. The holiday
has been gaining support across the country as Seattle, Minneapolis and Berkeley, Calif. have already made the
alternative to Columbus Day official.
Here's everything you need to know about Indigenous Peoples Day, how it's different from Columbus Day and
why more cities are celebrating it.
What is Indigenous Peoples Day?
Indigenous Peoples Day celebrates Native Americans and challenges the idea that Christopher Columbus
"discovered" America. Berkeley was the first city, and South Dakota the first state, in the United States to
recognize the holiday in 1992.
The idea of a Columbus Day alternative actually traces back to the 1970s, and the United Nations declared August
9 as International Day of the World’s Indigenous People in 1994.
What cities have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day?
Along with Berkeley and South Dakota, a number of cities and states have adopted Indigenous Peoples Day,
including Denver, Phoenix, Albuquerque, N.M., Portland.
States like Alaska, Vermont, have also replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. Oberlin, Ohio and
Bangor, Maine abolished Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day along with Los Angeles this month.
What is Columbus Day?
Columbus Day honors Christopher Columbus and his arrival in the Americas in 1492.
When did Columbus Day start?
Columbus Day was first recognized in 1937 when then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt made it a federal holiday.
Lobbying by Italian-American community groups led to its creation as a holiday starting in the early 1900s.
Why do people want to replace Columbus Day?
Columbus Day has been criticized for celebrating the discovery of a place that was already inhabited and because
Columbus himself is considered responsible for the rape and murder of those indigenous people.
"One of the biggest misconceptions about Columbus is that he was righteous," Leo Killsback, a citizen of the
Northern Cheyenne Nation and assistant professor of American Indian Studies at Arizona State University, told
CNN.Killsback also noted that Columbus never actually landed in what in the now the United States.
Berkeley Loni Hancock, who was the Mayor of Berkeley in 1992, told TIME Magazine in 2014 that they opted for
the alternative to Columbus Day because the existing celebrations were "Eurocentric and [have] ignored the
brutal realities of the colonization of indigenous peoples."
