Office of Indian Affairs: Medical Division Created to administer the growing number of federal programs and dollars aimed at improving AIAN health. Tribes look to the Medical Division to provide doctors and medicine to their reservations.
Gold Rush Gold is found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. Whole indigenous societies were attacked and pushed off their lands by the gold-seekers, called “forty-niners.”
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Chief Justice John Marshall declares tribal nations “domestic dependent nations,” and “the relationship of the tribes to the United States resembles that of a ‘ward to its guardian.’” This case establishes the Federal Trust...
United States Constitution is Ratified Article I, Section 8, states, “Congress shall have the power to regulate Commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes”, determining Indian tribes are separate from the federal...
