Direct Action
This method was used by Native Americans to protest for their rights.
What is direct action?
This gave tribes control over custody agreements regarding native children.
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act (1978)?
Also known as the General Allotment Act this piece of legislation tried to eliminate traditional tribal landholding in order to break up reservation land and sell it to individual families and to white settler
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
This is the first native student organization. It is also one of the first groups to use direct action.
What is the National Indian Youth Council?
This war was between Great Britain and France that lasted from 1756-1763 for territory overseas, with Great Britain defeating France resulting in massive territorial gains in North america.
What is the 7 years war?
Protesters called the “Indians of All Tribes” occupied this federal prison for 19 months to symbolize conditions on reservations
What is Alcatraz?
This provided the indigenous with protections similar, but not identical to the constitution.
What is the Indian Bill of Rights?
This policy resulted in Indigenous unemployment, employment in low-paying jobs, discrimination, and loss of cultural support.
What is Forced Relocation?
This group founded in Minneapolis was started by Ojibwas Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and George Mitchell.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
This is the former president of Mexico who made indigenous issues paramount.
Who is Lazaro Cardenas?
This started as a 20-point manifesto and ended with Natives occupying the bureau of Indian affairs for several days.
What is the trail of broken treaties?
This treaty recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux reservation
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
This demonstration left by Arthur Manuel led people from Vancouver to Ottawa. It is the most effective direct action in Canada's history.
What is the Constitution Express?
This is a Native American movement often associated with the black panther party?
What is Red Power?
The National Indigenous institute created this [] to assimilate the indigenous into Mexican society.
What are Boarding Schools that teach Spanish?
The participants walked between 250 to 450 miles and took them about 18 days to reach fort sumner.
What is the longest walk?
This act provided American and Alaskan indigenous with funding for all grade levels.
What is the Indian Education Act of 1972?
This direct action followed the Trail of Broken Treaties. Occurring in Washington DC in 1976, the purpose of this was for Indigenous sovereignty.
What is the Trail of Self-Determination?
This act sought to address deficiencies in Indian Health Care.
What is the 1976 Indian Health Care Act?
This paper established that all Canadians should be equal with no social privileges.
What is the White Paper?
This action resulted for a tribes desire to impeach a chairperson from their tribe.
What is Wounded Knee?
This act established a process whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes.
What is the Removal Act of 1830?
This U.S. Supreme Court decision abrogated Native American treaty rights in 1903.
What is Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock?
This group founded in 1944's admission was open to only indigenous persons. It focused on tribal and reservation issues and worked throughout the 50s to end tribal termination.
What is the National Council of American Indians (NCAI)?
This movement was founded in response to the Canadian government having more power in terms of power to negotiate land usage.
What is Idle No More movement?