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The Indian Appropriations Act is the name of several acts passed by the United States Congress.A considerable number of acts were passed under the same name throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the most notable landmark acts consist of the Appropriation Bill for Indian Affairs of 1851 [1] and the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act.
After the defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876, Congress responded by attaching what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider (19 Stat. 192) to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 (19 Stat. 176, enacted August 15, 1876) which cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to ...
Indian wars per year jumped up to 32 in 1876 and remained at 43 in 1877. [23] One of the highest casualty Indian battles that took place in American history was at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. [38] Indian war casualties in Montana went from 5 in 1875, to 613 in 1876 and 436 in 1877. [39]
After the defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876, Congress responded by attaching what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider (19 Stat. 192) to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 (enacted August 15, 1876) which cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the United States.
December 11, 2020: Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021, and Other Extensions Act Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2021, and for other purposes. Pub. L. 116–215 (text), H.R. 8900, 134 Stat. 1041, enacted December 11, 2020: 116-216: December 11, 2020: United States Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020
Bernie Whitebear , American Indian activist, a co-founder of the Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB), the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, and the Daybreak Star Cultural Center. Robert A. Williams Jr. , an American lawyer who is a notable author and legal scholar in the field of Federal Indian Law, International Law and Indigenous ...
United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, 448 U.S. 371 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that: 1) the enactment by Congress of a law allowing the Sioux Nation to pursue a claim against the United States that had been previously adjudicated did not violate the doctrine of separation of powers; and 2) the taking of property that was set aside for the use of ...
These decisions were implemented over subsequent years through numerous "reconstruction treaties" and subsequent laws, including the Indian Appropriations Act, Homestead Act (which provided a framework for land runs), Dawes Act, Dawes Commission, Curtis Act of 1898 (which extended the allotment process to the tribes of Indian Territory and ...