A clear and concise set of notes providing a summary of the Native Americans topic of the OCR A-Level History Civil Rights in the USA course. Separated into era's and events are dated. Each era contains both positive and negative events for evaluation. Includes; presidential action, laws/acts, gov...
1865-1900 NARF (SC. Cases, tribal culture)
Mount Rushmore 1971
No control over funding
Wounded Knee
No votes
BIA
Not all wanted assimilation
Pine Ridge
Reservations limited land
Charrier vs. Bell 1986
Massacre at Wounded Knee 1890
Nixon pledge to return NA lands (1970) 😊
Reservation policy
Fisher vs. Montana 1979 (adoption)
Dawes Act 1887
Reagan – reduced funding ☹
Plains Wars
Carter – Child Welfare Act 1978 (religious
Battle at Little Bighorn 1876
freedoms)
Dance Orders (banned all NA dancing and
Nixon – Indian Self-determination Act
ceremonies)
1975 😊
Lost 2/3 land through Dawes Act
NA appointed as commissioner for Indian
Some successful farmers, e.g. Navajos
Affairs
1900-1945 Termination ended
Gov. funding
IRA (stops sale of NA land) Education Act 1972 😊
75/245 tribes voted against IRA
NCIA 1944 (similar to NAACP)
Society of American Indians 1911 (largely
fails)
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock 1903 (congress
change treaties w/out consultation)
War – changed some attitudes
Assimilation remained
Meriam report (gov. policy)
Tribal councils asked to vote on IRA
Indian Citizenship Act 1924
1945-1969
Poverty (life expec. only 44)
NA songs/books
NIYC (sit-ins)
AIM (Alcatraz 1969)
Still assimilation (until LBJ)
Indian Civil Rights Act 1968 (full access to
US Bill of Rights – freedom of religion etc.)
ICC (slow process)
Termination – accelerated urbanisation
LBJ (‘Forgotten Americans’ speech) 😊
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