1492 Columbus reaches Turtle Island
1519 Cortes arrives in Tenochtitlan
1596 Pocahontas is born
1656 Kateri Tekahkwitha is born
1790 Sacagawea is born
1889 Wounded Knee
1912 Jim Thorpe wins the Pentathlon and Decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics
1958 James Gladstone is appointed Canada's first Native Senator
1960 First Nations gain the right to vote in Canada
1980 The Vatican declares Kateri Tekahkwitha "Blessed"
1984 Alwyn Morris wins gold and bronze in Kayaking at the Los Angeles Olympics
1990 Mohawk Crisis; Elijah Harper blocks the Meech Lake Accord
1996 June 21st becomes National Aboriginal Day in Canada
2004 Waneek Horn-Miller wins gold at the Athens Olympics
2010 First Nations reported to have highest birth rate, according to Statistics
Canada
2022 Prominent lawyer becomes first Native judge of the Supreme Court
2042 The Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en win their land claim
2066 First Nations' land base has grown to 22% of North America
2081 Quebec separates from Canada
2083 The James Bay Cree separate from Quebec (taking the hydro-electric dams
with them)
2102 The senate is reformed on the model of the Clan Mothers
2134 Quebec joins the Cree
2155 Statistics Khanata reports that 83% of the population are of Aboriginal
ancestry
2163 Nakoma becomes the first Indian on Mars
2203 First reservation established
on Mars
2311 Royal Commission on non-Aboriginal Peoples reaches its conclusions
2362 Thunderbird University opens a campus on Mars
2442 The First Nations Confederacy flies its new flag
2298 Windspeaker reports first non-Aboriginal to win Olympic gold in 32 years.