June 1973
Richard and Betty Butler move to North Idaho from California a year after buying 20 acres north of Hayden Lake. In 1977, the site becomes the Church of Jesus Christ Christian – Aryan Nations.
April 1980
Richard Butler, attends the first Aryan Nations (AN) Congress in Kansas, involved with a Posse Comitatus group in Kootenai County, calls for unity among white supremacist groups at a conference in Hays, Kan.
December 1980
As word of Butler’s “racist” group spreads, citizens meet in Coeur d’Alene, laying groundwork for what becomes the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations.
June 27, 1981
Aryan Nations church is bombed, causing $80,000 damage. Butler blames the Jewish Defense League. The bombing is never solved.
July 1981
The first reported cross lighting occurs at the Aryan Nations during a “Kingdom Identity Conference.” The gathering becomes an annual event called the Aryan Nations Congress.
July 1982
The Aryan Nations Congress honors Manfred Roeder, Robert Miles, J.B. Stoner and Louis Beam Jr. as “Aryans of Outstanding Valor.”
September 1982
Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations is formed by Undersheriff Larry Broadbent, the Rev. Rick Morse and citizen- activist Dina Tanners.
June 1983
Aryan Nations holds a rally in Spokane’s Riverfront Park, where a confrontation occurs involving Aryan supporter Robert Mathews, of Metaline Falls, Wash. Three months later Mathews secretly forms an Aryan terrorist group known as The Order.
October 1983
The Order launches its crime spree when Mathews and members Randy Duey, Bruce Pierce and Daniel Bauer rob an adult bookstore in Spokane.
April 1984
The Order robs an armored car in Seattle of $500,000. Counterfeit money printed at the Aryan Nations also turns up.
June 18, 1984
After bombing a synagogue in Boise, members of The Order use a machine gun to assassinate Jewish talk-radio host Alan Berg in Denver. The next month, The Order pulls off a $3.6 million armored car robbery in Ukiah, Calif.
Dec. 7, 1984
After earlier shootouts in Sandpoint and Portland, four Order members are arrested at a hideout on Whidbey Island. Mathews dies in a siege by the FBI.
April 15, 1985
A federal grand jury which has questioned Butler indicts 23 members of The Order. The same day, Aryan Nations and Order member David Tate fatally shoots a state trooper in Missouri.
August 1985
Aryan Nations security chief Elden “Bud” Cutler is arrested in Coeur d’Alene for trying to hire a hit man to kill the key FBI informant in The Order investigation.
December 1985
A federal jury in Seattle convicts 10 Order members of racketeering; others plead guilty. Sentences range from 40 to 100 years.
July 1986
The Aryan Nations Congress promotes establishment of a white homeland in five Northwest states.
Sept. 29, 1986
Three pipe bombs explode in Coeur d’Alene, including one at the U.S. Courthouse. An earlier bombing damages the home of anti-Aryan activist Bill Wassmuth. Investigators later tie the bombs to Aryan Nations security chief David Dorr, who has formed The Order II.
April 24, 1987
Richard Butler is arrested on a federal indictment, accusing him and 12 others of playing godfather roles in a scheme to overthrow the government with The Order. Butler stands trial in Fort Smith, Ark., and is acquitted in 1988.
April 1989
The Aryan Nations hosts its first Aryan Youth Conference, attracting neo-Nazi skinheads in an event that coincides with Adolf Hitler’s birthday. The Aryans Nations promotes the event in its first mass mailing to residents of Kootenai County.
May 1990
Three men with ties to the Aryan Nations – Steven E. Nelson, Robert J. Winslow and James Proctor Baker – are arrested after traveling from North Idaho to Seattle to blow up a gay bar. The three are later convicted in Idaho.
January 1991
Randy Weaver, who attended Aryan Nations gatherings in the mid- 1980s, is arrested for selling a sawed-off shotgun to an informant. Weaver refuses to show up for trial, ultimately triggering an August 1992 shootout with federal agents at Ruby Ridge. Weaver’s son and wife, and a deputy U.S. marshal, are killed. Weaver later is acquitted of most charges.
February 1992
Another splinter group from the Aryan Nations, “The Bob Mathews Brigade,” is linked to plots to assassinate two civil rights leaders.
June 1992
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that cross burnings like those at the Aryan Nations are protected free speech.
December 1992
Two members of the Aryan Nations, Tim R. Biscope and Adam Elteto, are arrested for first-degree murder in the shooting death of skinhead Johnny R. Sharbnow.
July 1993
Chevie Kehoe marries his second wife in a polygamous ceremony at the Aryan Nations. Kehoe later forms a Mathews-style group, the Aryan Peoples Republic, which is linked to five killings and three robberies.
December 1995
Betty Butler dies.
March 1998
The FBI says a group known as the Aryan Republican Army, responsible for 22 bank robberies, got its firearms from Chevie Kehoe. He is sentenced to life in prison in May 1999.
June 1998
Aryan Nations guard Buford O’Neal Furrow Jr. fired more than 70 rounds from a submachine gun at a Jewish community center in Los Angeles. He wounded five people, then drove off and shot and killed a Filipino-American postal worker.
July 1998
Victoria and Jason Keenan are shot at during a car chase from the Aryan Nations compound. The assaults occur two weeks before an Aryan parade in Coeur d’Alene.
December 1998
Two wealthy former California businessmen, Vincent Bertollini and Carl Story, form the 11th Hour Remnant Messenger and send out expensive mass mailings promoting the Aryan Nations and its Christian Identity white supremacy message.
January 1999
Aryan Nations and Butler are sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which represents the Keenans.
August 11, 1999
Former Aryan Nations security guard Buford Furrow is arrested for killing an Asian postal carrier and firing an assault rifle in a Jewish day care center in Los Angeles.
September 2000
In 2000, a corrupt jury, hell bent on destroying Aryan Nations and bankrupting it, issued a judgment of $6.3 million against the Church.
July 2000
A national leader of the Posse Comitatus and Bertollini are featured speakers at the Aryan Nations Congress, where swastikas and a cross are burned in night ceremonies.
2001
Pastor Ray Redfeairn becomes the appointed successor of Butler.
2001
The Church is burned to the ground by the enemy kikes of our Race, Christ and Nation. It is said, the fires were set by the kikes at the ADL, using bibles.
October 2003
Pastor Ray Redfeairn, the predestined successor of Pastor Richard G. Butler passes from a massive heart attack.
2003
Pastor Richard G. Butler runs for Mayor of Hayden Lake, Idaho.
September 2004
Pastor Richard G. Butler passes away in his sleep peacefully.
July 2010
Pastor Morris L. Gulett, who was a Prisoner of War (POW), and an Active member of AN for more than twenty years, gets released and goes back to his duty as the Senior Pastor of The Church of Jesus Christ Christian – Aryan Nations.
September 4th, 2014
Edgar J. Steele, the attorney for Aryan Nations is killed as he was a Prisoner of War. ZOG poisoned him as he fought to prove his innocence.
November 2015
Pastor Morris L. Gulett retires from his active duty as the Senior Pastor and World Leader of The Church of Jesus Christ Christian – Aryan Nations.
February 2016
Pastor David J. Miner, sanctified through Pastor Morris L. Gulett, becomes the new World Leader for Aryan Nations and Senior Pastor of the Church.
