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History U.S.A. - Native American Civil Rights Movement Flashcards

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10248484145Resolution of TerminationA programme to get Native Americans to assimilate into American society (1945)0
10248484146Termination negative effectFederal government could sell land1
10248566961Indian Civil Rights ActRecognized the legitimacy of tribal laws within the reservations2
10248566962American Indian MovementA civil rights group organized to promote the interests of Native Americans3
102485828301969 to 1971Occupation of Alcatraz4
10248582831Indian Financing ActGave indian groups funding5
102485828331971 progress40 million acres of Alaskan land given to native tribes6
10248582834self determinationthe concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves7
13523173361Indian Citizenship Act of 1924Gives Native Americans citizenship and the right to vote in federal elections in 19248
13523186426Charles CurtisThe first Native American Vice President of the United States from Kansas.9
13523190105Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)A protest held by The American Indian Movement in which a group of Native Americans occupied an old Native American settlement.10
13523201857Wheeler-Howard Act (1934)A policy of self-determination rather than assimilation for Native Americans. One of the important effects of this act was to allow the tribes to create their own governments on the reservations11
13523215280Special SchoolsSegregated schooling's system in which Native American children were to attend.12
13523232802Williams v Lee (1959)Supreme court ruling that tribes have jurisdiction over the land that they are contracted.13
13523252130National Indian Youth councilin 1961, a more militant generation of Native Americans expressed growing discontent with the government and with the older Indian leadership by forming this council.14
13523281634Red BeretsNickname given to the violent wing of the Native American Indian movement.15
13523328460Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978Gives tribal governments a strong voice concerning child custody proceedings that involve Indian children16
13523336807Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinezstrengthened the tribal power of individual tribe members and furthered self-government by Indian tribes.17
13523341546Longest Walk protestA protest started in California that involved Native Americans walking to Washington D.C. to bring attention to the movement and mistreatment of Indian American people.18

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