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A New Era in Indian Affairs?
John Collier and the New Indian Deal
Upheaval in America & the Rise of Indian Militancy
The Indian Claims Commission
Removing the Government's Trust Responsibilities
100
This occurred in 1929, entering the U.S. In the worst depression in history. (484)
What is the U.S. Stock Market Crash
100
John Collier was appointed to this position and served from 1933-1945. (485)
What is Commissioner of Indian Affairs
100
Native American thought during this war was that the United States claim to defending international freedom, justice and self-determination was unfair when the United States denied those rights to Native American's at home.
What is The Cold War
100
Which Native American group was the first U.S. treaty within 1778? (495)
Who are the Delaware Indians
100
This new commissioner, in 1950, was hostile to many of the reforms implemented by John Collier. He viewed the Bureau as a means to help Native Americans "learn to do more things on their own". He implemented the policy of termination and relocation. (496)
Who is Dillion S. Myer
200
His republican administration was unable to meet the challenge or alleviate the suffering of the depression. (484)
Who is Herbert Hoover
200
A visit to this location in 1920 changed Collier's life, and convinced him that Indian cultures had something fundamental to offer American society. (485)
What is Taos Pueblo
200
The first Native American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel "House Made of Dawn."
Who is Kiowa N. Scott Momaday
200
This group was established by Congress in 1946 to review tribal grievances over treaty enforcement and management of resources and to resolve lingering disputes between Indian tribes and the U.S. government. (495)
What is The Indian Claims Commission
200
In 1953 this was passed in the hopes of ending Native Americans status as "wards of the United States, and to grant them all the rights and prerogatives pertaining to American citizenship". (496)
What is House Concurrent Resolution
300
In 1932 he was elected to the Oval Office with a mandate for reform. (484)
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR).
300
*DAILY BOUBLE* Collier helped to establish this council, which successfully lobbied against this bill of 1922 that had threatened to deprive the Pueblos of land and water rights by placing jurisdiction over those rights in the state courts and legitimizing the claims of many non-Indians on Pueblo lands. (486)
What is All-Pueblo Council and the Bursum Bill
300
This group was formed in Chicago by younger Native American's who voiced their discontent and impatience in trying to work with the U.S. government. They demanded Native American participation in determining the policies that affected Native American lives.
What is NIYC (National Indian Youth Council)
300
Indians rejected the idea of cash payment to settle lands. They also had conflicting claims called ________ that caused many problems for the Claims Commission. (495)
What is Aboriginal Occupancy
300
After the House Concurrent Resolution passed Congress passed this law which transferred jurisdiction over tribal lands to state and local governments which represented a major step towards states control over Indian Reservations. (497)
What is Public Law 280
400
FDR promised a new deal for "the forgotten man" and no one was more forgotten then this group. (485)
Who are the American Indians.
400
Lakota scholar and activist Vine Deloria Jr. who was born during the depression called this program "the greatest program ever to come along". (487)
What is Civilian Conservation Corps
400
This group used aggressive means to generate the revival of Irish Nationalism. They promoted Indian identity and culture.
What is American Indian Movement (AIM)
400
In this year the Indian Claims Commission came to an end, after settling 285 cases and paying more than $800 million in settlements.
What is 1978
400
In June 1954, President Eisenhower signed this Act which gave the tribe four years to establish their own services which were previously provided by the federal government. (497)
What is Menominee Termination Act
500
Working both within and against the system to effect change, Indian peoples took increasing responsibility for implementing programs in their own communities and eventually for formulating policies in response to this. (485)
What is policy shifts emanating from Washington D.C.
500
Under this act the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to negotiate contracts with any state for financial relief in areas of Indian education, medical aid, agricultural assistance and welfare. (488)
What is Johnson O'Malley Act of 1934
500
*DAILY DOUBLE* In 1968 and 1969 Indians protested through a blockade and seizure of federal infrastructure. What were these two instances?
What is Seizure of Alcatraz Island and the Blockade of the International Bridge.
500
What were the two different ways of how settlement payments should be allocated? (496)
What is To the tribe or divided among individual members
500
This group was founded in 1944 to protect Indian rights led by its chairman Joseph Garry. (498)
What is National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)