1960s Timeline

Mar. 5, 1963 - Here are President Kennedy's remarks today to representatives of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in the...

Mar. 5, 1963 - A band of 100 American Indians visited Chief Curly of the Crows in the White House today to shower him with gifts and...

Nov. 29, 1962 - Indians cannot plead religious freedom as a ground for eating a vision-producing cactus plant banned by state law, the...

Nov. 13, 1962 - An Indian’s right to eat vision-inducing cactus buds in half-Christian, half-pagan ceremonies was defended in California...

Aug. 15, 1962 - Here are President Kennedy’s remarks today on the White House South Lawn to delegates attending the American Indian...

Jan. 1, 1962 - The Indians of the United States can no longer be considered vanishing Americans, the Bureau of Indian Affairs reported...