May 6, 1626 - Manhattan people of the Wappinger Confederacy receive sixty guilders (about $24) from Peter Minuit, Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam, for the island of Manhattan. Manhattan people believed payment was rent for one year.
May 25, 1637 - About 1000 Pequot men, women, and children are massacred by the English of Plymouth colony. The two hundred survivors are sold into slavery.
May 28, 1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by Congress
May 23, 1838 - Cherokee removal "Trail of Tears" begins.
May 5, 1969 - N. Scott Momaday wins Pultizer Prize for House Made of Dawn.
Information obtained from the Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, CO. "We ask for nothing more, and will accept nothing less than the U.S. government keeping the promises it has made to Native Americans." - John E. Echohawk, Executive Director, NARF. www.narf.org
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