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The American Indian Genocide
1,448 wordsTextbooks and movies are still hiding the genocide of Native American Indian cultures, which began five centuries ago. There were many friendly and close relationships between early immigrant settlers and native peoples, but these were not the main current in their relations. U. S. history is destroyed by acts of genocide against native people, made worse by the deadly impact of new diseases spread by contact between new settlers and native Americans. Many aggressive attempts were made to reform...
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American Indian Movement Bureau Of Indian Affairs
1,622 wordsOne of the modern Native Americans' most prominent leaders, Leonard Peltier, was arrested in the summer of 1975 and eventually sentenced to two life terms for a crime many believe he did not commit. The conviction and imprisonment of Leonard Peltier is an injustice. His prosecution by the United States government represents yet another attempt to snuff out American Indian culture and leaders. The outspokenness of Peltier and other AIM members may be the only reason why Leonard Peltier has sat in...
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American Indian Movement Women And Children
1,643 words... able to keep the residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation under a blanket of fear and helplessness (Matthiessen, 296). This was the situation at Pine Ridge when elders asked the AIM to come, to support those on the reservation who were under attack from the FBI and from Dick Wilson. What followed is still controversial today. On June 26, 1975, two unmarked cars drove onto Jumping Bull property in the Pine Ridge Reservation supposedly searching for a young Indian who stole some cowboy boots. T...
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American Indian Religious Freedom Act Of 1978
1,519 wordsTHE AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT OF 1978 The American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 Some people want the medicine man and woman to share their religious belief in the same manner that priests, rabbis, and ministers expound publicly the tenets of their denominations; others feel that Indian ceremonials are remnants of primitive life and should be abandoned. - Vine Deloria (NARF article) Religious freedom is an autonomy that most people living in the present take for granted. For m...
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Bureau Of Indian Affairs Native Americans
328 wordsThe text we have studied relates to the integration problem between teh white and Indian population of United States: Indians are called Native-Americans because they have lived there for centuries. White Europeans arrived in the 17 th century on their land during the conquest of the new territories. The confrontation of two cultures led to many problems we will discuss later but, basically, we had the Indian culture related to nature, natural living in direct confrontation with the white indust...
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American Indian Movement Washington D C
1,429 wordsDescribe the overall purpose of their organizational effort Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe, was born in 1937 on the Leach Lake reservation in Minnesota and was raised by his grandparents. Dennis Banks grew up learning the traditional ways of the Ojibwa lifestyle. As a young child he was taken away from practicing his traditional ways and was put into a government boarding school that was designed for Indian children to learn the white culture. After years of attending the b...
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United States Of America Bureau Of Indian
2,860 wordsThe Mistreatment of Native Americans United States of America claims to be one of the most democratic countries in the world. Every high school student knows that democracy means government of people, a society where every groups interests are represented and where the supreme power belongs to citizens of this particular country. On the surface, Americas system seems to be working well everybody has a chance to get education, make a good living, and keep his /her historical and cultural identity...
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Frequently Asked Questions Las Casas
3,027 wordsIndians The First Nations The Native people (Indians) are the people who were the first inhabitants; they lead traditional way of life. In such a way, the concept of native people consists of two aspects. First of all we speak about indigenous, native-born people who lived at the territory from the very beginning. Americans have their special term that reflects this quality of the native people: First Nations. Actually, the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) organization determines the na...
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Relationship Between Indian Reservations And Their Neighbors
2,310 wordsRelationship between Indian Reservations and their Neighbors During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the public lands were managed primarily on behalf of those interested in using and extracting the timber, minerals, and grass. Native Americans were removed from the lands in favor of farmers, grazers, loggers, and miners. During the last half-century, the American West has been undergoing a dramatic transformation with significant consequences for our approach to the public lands. T...
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Helen Hunt Jackson Indian Tribes
2,278 words... of this board included encouraging the Indians to independently strive for their rights, ensuring that the Indians had access to lawyers, ascertaining that the money allocated for the benefit of Indians was used for that purpose only. Several smaller organizations were affiliated to the Board and generated funds for the board by arranging events and memberships. By 1924, Indians made up the bulk of the auxiliary organizations and these organizations had close to 11, 000 members. However, the...
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Bureau Of Indian Affairs North Carolina
2,061 wordsFight for Recognition It is hard to believe now that the plain and forthright flatland's of Robeson County could have hidden an entire people for generations. Most every part of North Carolina used to be tobacco country. But many, perhaps most, of the tobacco fields are abandoned now. The generation that has gone off to work the assembly lines in the Converse plant down at Lumberton, at Kelly-Springfield in Fayetteville, or at Campbell Soup over in Martin hardly even remembers the grueling work ...
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Bureau Of Indian Affairs Native Americans
328 wordsThe text we have studied relates to the integration problem between teh white and Indian population of United States: Indians are called Native-Americans because they have lived there for centuries. White Europeans arrived in the 17 th century on their land during the conquest of the new territories. The confrontation of two cultures led to many problems we will discuss later but, basically, we had the Indian culture related to nature, natural living in direct confrontation with the white indust...
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U S Government Native Americans
1,391 wordsIndian tribes existed as sovereign governments long before European settlers arrived in North America. Treaties signed with European nations and later the United States in exchange for land guaranteed the tribes continued recognition and treatment as sovereign nations. Historically, state governments have been hostile to the concept of recognizing and dealing with tribes as sovereign governments. The United States negotiated numerous treaties which they continuously violated in pursuit of the In...
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