Lesson 25: Relations between ethnic communities

Question 1

How were the Native Americans’ experiences similar to black Americans?

Answer 1

1.Set up groups such as NCAI (1944) that copied NAACP’s methods of using law courts to gain rights, and AIM who monitered police acts of racism
2. White Americans clashed with natives over fishing rights
3. Used violence to cause damage to the offices of BIA agency in the government

Question 2

How were the Native Americans’ experiences different to black Americans’?

Answer 2

• Native americans had worse education and economic problems
• NCAI didnt want integration, they wanted to remain seperate
• more white sympathy towards Native Americans
• 1946+1978 = gov gave $800 million to compensate unfair land loss of the natives
  (Helped tribe economically develop)

Question 3

How was Hispanic experiences similar to black americans

Answer 3

• they worked in rural communities or in ghettos
• 1960s, they followed black and native example and demanded more rights

Question 4

How were mexican americans/ hispanic experiences different to those of black americans?

Answer 4

• mexican americans as a whole were less interested and knowledagble of politics
• despised american government