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Who: Charles Curtis
What: First Native American Senator/Vice President of the United States of America.
Where: Washington D.C
When: 1907

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Who: Choctaw soldiers
What: Used native language to send messages for US troops during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918.
Where: Northern France
when: Fall 1918

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Who: Congress/Native Americans
What: Indian Citizenship Act granting citizenship to Native Americans.
Where: Washington D.C
When: 1924

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Who: John Meriam/Native Americans
What: Lead an investigation into the living conditions at Native American reservations.
Where: USA
When: 1924

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Who: Congress/Native Americans
What: Indian New Deal to retain cultural identity.
Where: Washington DC
When: 1934

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Who: Congress/Native Americans
What: Termination policy cuts federal services to over 500 tribes.
Where: United States.
When: 1950

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Who: Congress/Native Americans
What: Indian Civil Rights Act giving Native Americans the benefits of the Bill of Rights.
Where: Washington D.C
When: 1968

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Who: Native Americans
What: American Indian movement is formed.
Where: USA
When: 1968

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Who: Native American/City of San Francisco
What: Native American protesters occupy Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
Where: San Francisco
When: 1969

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Who: Native Americans/U.S government
What: Native Americans occupy Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Where: Washington D.C
When: 1972

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Who: Native Americans
What: Native Americans occupy Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Where: South Dakota
When: 1973

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Who: Congress/Native Americans
What: Indian Child Welfare Act gives tribes authority for tribal membership to children and to raise them as they see fit.
Where: USA
When: 1978

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Who: John Bennett Harrington
What: First Native American to go to space.
Where: USA
When: 1984

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Who: Supreme Court/Native Americans
What: Court ruled that Indians tribes are free from most state gambling regulations.
Where: USA
When: 1987

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Who: Native Americans/Congress
What: Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act acquires the return of corpses and sacred funerary objects to the tribes they belong to.
Where: USA
When: 1990

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Who: Rigoberta Menchu
What: Received a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to protect Indians from discrimination.
Where: USA
When: 1992

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Who: Native Americans/Congress
What: Religious Freedom Restoration Act prohibits US states from interfering with Native American religions.
Where: USA
When: 1993

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President Bill Clinton signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act- National Archives and Records Administration

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Who: Bill Clinton/Native Americans

What: President Clinton visits the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, becoming the first president to visit a reservation since FDR in the 1930's.
Where: Pine Ridge Reservation
When: 1999

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Who: August Werner Schellenberg
What: Famous Native american actor. His number one movie he stared was Free Willy. He was in more that 45 movies lot of them where based off of the native american caulture.  His acting career came to a end in 2013.
Where: USA
When: 2013

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Who: Representative Deb Haaland
What: Becomes Secretary of the Interior, becoming the first Native American to lead a agency of the president's cabinet.
Where: Washington DC
When: 2021