Native Americans

Question 1

What was the Indian Emergency Conservation programme |(New Deal)?

Answer 1

• it was like the CCC and employed 85,000 Indians

Question 2

what was the Indian reorganisation act?

Answer 2

• 1934
• stopped the Dawes act
• gave funds to tribes for new land and stopped banning Indian language (Gov feel guilty)

Question 3

what was the National congress of American Indians (NCAI)?

Answer 3

• 1944
• like NAACP used courts to protest rights of natives
• first to include all tribes
• Indians of Maine got damages from gov in court case for breaking 1790 treaty and taking their land

Question 4

what was the American Indian Movement (AIM)?

Answer 4

• 1969
• created first Indian health board in 1969
• the 1972 trial of broken treaties was march on Washington and staged sit in to present 20 pint solution to Nixon

Question 5

what was the Indian self determination act?

Answer 5

• 1974

- granted tribes control over federal aid programmes and schools on reservations

Question 6

when was the wounded knee protest?

Answer 6

1973

Question 7

what happened at the wounded knee protest?

Answer 7

200 Sioux occupied battle ground of wounded knee for 71 days
- led by AIM
- declared themselves an independent state on 13th day
tried for peace treaty of 71st day

Question 8

how did the government deceive the natives at the wounded knee protest?

Answer 8

• the government agreed treaty of 71st day but the government lied and violated it straight away (same as 1890)
• AIM disbanded in 1978

Question 9

what are natives like today?

Answer 9

• rate of unemployment is 50-70%

- lowest average income