December 15, 1890 - Chief Sitting Bull is murdered outside his home at Standing Rock, ND
December 16, 1882 - The Hopi reservation is established in Arizona
December 18, 1971 - Alaskan Native Claims Act is signed into law
December 26, 1862 - 38 Dakotas are publically hanged in largest mass execution in U.S. history
December 29, 1890 - Wounded Knee massacre of Big Foot's Lakota. In less than ten minutes, more than three hundred old men, women, and children are massacred by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry
Information provided by Native American Rights Fund. "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
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