Native American rights

Question 1

Assimilation

Answer 1

-Rejection of traditional Indian culture
-Indian parents children being taken away

Question 2

The Indian Reorganisation Act and the New Deal

Answer 2

-Restored tribal control over reservation land
-New Deal gave natives more land, greater farming expertise, better medical services and large money grants

Question 2

The Indian Claims Commission

Answer 2

-Set up in 1946
-Provided compensation for Indians who lost their land unfairly

Question 3

The BIA and ‘termination’ in the 1950s

Answer 3

-Bureau of Indian Affairs
-Wanted native Americans to get jobs in the cities but home and land is destroyed

Question 4

National Congress of American Indians

Answer 4

Organisation focusing on working ‘within the system’ to improve NI rights

Question 5

American Indian movement

Answer 5

Organisation focusing on direct action and protest to improve NI rights

Question 6

Supreme Court/Federal government support for Native American rights:

Answer 6

1972 Education Act- can now teach their own people
1975 Indian Self Determination Act- gave more independence (voting)
1978 Indian Child Welfare act- can adopt their own children

Question 7

Benefits brought about by direct action and ‘Red Power’

Answer 7

-Red power ensure police prejudice lower, 60% drop in prison sentence
-Protest mismanagement of BIA’s actions