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This act by the California Government in 1850, allowed for punishment of enslavement, forced separation of one generation between native families, and allowed genocide to occur
What is the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians?
This act signed in 1887 started what we know now is the allotment period.
What is the Dawes Act?
This Native American grassroots movement was started in 1968 in Minnesota
What is the American Indian Movement?
This Native American's fought for American in World War Two, specifically using a code. They would experience racism back home
Who are the code talkers?
This act entitled Native Americans to citizenship. It made languages and some religious practices legal again. However, it said nothing about discrimination and left voting laws to the states.
Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
This proclamation was sent to the U.S. Government that offered to buy Alcatraz for $24 dollars in glass beads and red cloth.
What is The Alcatraz Proclamation?
This council was formed in 1968. Its mission was to oversee the rise of federal programs that benefit the American Indian Population
What is the National Council on Indian Opportunity?
This volcano, sacred to the Native Hawaiians has been recently a place of protest
What is Mauna Kea?
This act enacted by President Roosevelt in 1934 was considered the "Indian New Deal". It completely ended the allotment period but forced boilerplate constitutions.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
This island/prison off San Francisco was occupied by Native Americans for fourteen months from November 20, 1969 to June 11, 1971
What is Alcatraz?
This was the policy and era of the U.S. Government between the mid 40s to the mid 60s
What is the Termination policy/Era?
This man had found gold in 1846 outside of Los Angeles
Francisco Lopez
This act was signed in the office by Jimmy Carter in 1978. It gives the right to access to sacred sites, freedom to worship, and possession of sacred objects
What is the American Indian Religous Freedom Act (AIRFA)?
This incident occurred in South Dakota for 2 months in 1973.
The Wounded Knee Incident
This act encouraged Natives on Reservations to relocate to greater urban areas
Indian Relocation Act of 1956
What does MMIW stand for?
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
This act was signed in 1994, however, it didn't fully provide protection to Native American Women and still doesn't fully, even though a reorganization was passed
What is the Violence against Women act?
This man has been imprisoned for the Standing Rock Reservation Shootout of 1975 that ended with the death of 2 FBI agents.
Who is Leonard Peltier?