Native Americans

Question 1

What was set up to aid Native Americans in 1944?

Answer 1

1944 - INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION
Established to offer financial compensation to Native Americans for claims of lost land, and to make up for their past exploitation. Essentially serving as a prelude to their taking their places as American citizens

Question 2

Describe the policy of ‘termination’

Answer 2

TERMINATION
Ruled that reservations should be broken up and Native Americans encouraged to move to urban areas with other US citizens
Essentially, the US government could absolve itself form any responsibility for the Native Americans as a separate group

Question 3

How effective was the policy of termination?

Answer 3

The whole policy was a disaster from the beginning. The American government made no real attempt to acclimatise them to American life, with many drifting into unemployment and alcoholism.

Question 4

By 1960, how many of the native Americans had left the reservations

Answer 4

Only 13,000 of the 400,000