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Facts About The Native Americans Experience In Northern Nevada
Discover some of the many experiences of Northern Nevada's Native Americans and how they have helped make our area what it is today.
January
1st - In 1909 WA Van Voorhis becomes superintendent Fallon Day School
10th - In 1905 the U.S. Senate depat on a joint statehood bill. Nevada Senator William Sterwart advocated an amendment to protect the interest of Indians and Nevada Senator Francis Newlands support limits on the land that could be sold to individuals.
12th - In 1854 Asa L Kenyon started a permanent trading post at Ragtown, near present-day Fallon on the Carson River Trail.
13th - In 1902 Commissioner of Indian Affairs sent out a letter to Indian schools saying that the hair of all Native American boys should be cut short, that no native costumes could be worn or native dances performed, and that their skin could not be painted.
18th - In 1898 former assembly member John Mayhugh was appointed Indian agent for the Western Shoshone Agency in Nevada.
February
1st - In 1970 the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe dedicated new buildings at Wadsworth and Nixon.
March
11th - In 1950 the Confederated Tribes of Nevada began a conference in Nixon to discuss the impending withdrawal of federal guardianship over Native Americans and other issues.
17th - In 1932 tribal police and federal narcs raided an alleged Carson City opium den that also served whisky.
April
1st - In 1897 Walker River Reservation and Day School transferred to Carson Indian School jurisdiction.
8th - In 1897 a jury was named in the Dayton trial of a man named Logan for the murder of a Paiute named Jim King and Native Americans were crowding into the town.
12th - The 1968 American Indian Civil Rights Act passed.
May
18th - In 1917 a presidential order reserved 60 acres for a Winnemucca Paiute colony (another 60 acres added on February 8, 1918, ten more on May 21, 1928, and another ten on May 28, 1928).
June
18th - In 1934 the Wheeler-Howard Act (Indian Recognition Act passed).
July
12th - In 1966 the Nevada State Journal began publication of a six part series on the Reno/Sparks Indian Colony.
August
19th - In 1953 news report said mummies of early inhabitants of North America had been found buried with the bones of horses and camels in Pershing County, Nevada.
September
5th - In 2007 the Fallon Tribal Development Corporation opens a Quiznos Sub at Fox Peak Station in Fallon, Nevada.
October
2nd - In 1887 Dr. Rodney Richardson of Delaware arrived at the Pyrimid Lake reservation to take up his duties as tribal agency physican
November
10th - In 1890 in Chicago, General Nelson Miles said he hed just traveled through Montana, Dakota, and Nebraska and those regions were alive with the Ghost Dance taught by Nevada Paiute prophet Wovoka that whites found so threatening.
15th - The Fallon Tribal Development Corporation facilitates the purchase of Dahl Parcel for future commercial/retail development by the Fallon Tribe.
30th - In 1877 Chief Winnemucca and his son Natchez passed through Reno on their way to Virginia City after returning San Francisco where they interviewed federal officials.
December
2nd - In 1993 The Indian Pledge of Allegience first presented during opening address of the NCAI Indian Tribal-State Relations Panel in Reno.
10th - In 1936 Bureau of Indian Affairs authorized approval to purchase Campbell Ranch near Yerington as Paiute Indian Colony: enlarged in 1941.
