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

10248484145	Resolution of Termination	A programme to get Native Americans to assimilate into American society (1945)	0
10248484146	Termination negative effect	Federal government could sell land	1
10248566961	Indian Civil Rights Act	Recognized the legitimacy of tribal laws within the reservations	2
10248566962	American Indian Movement	A civil rights group organized to promote the interests of Native Americans	3
10248582830	1969 to 1971	Occupation of Alcatraz	4
10248582831	Indian Financing Act	Gave indian groups funding	5
10248582833	1971 progress	40 million acres of Alaskan land given to native tribes	6
10248582834	self determination	the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves	7
13523173361	Indian Citizenship Act of 1924	Gives Native Americans citizenship and the right to vote in federal elections in 1924	8
13523186426	Charles Curtis	The first Native American Vice President of the United States from Kansas.	9
13523190105	Occupation 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
13523201857	Wheeler-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 reservations	11
13523215280	Special Schools	Segregated schooling's system in which Native American children were to attend.	12
13523232802	Williams v Lee (1959)	Supreme court ruling that tribes have jurisdiction over the land that they are contracted.	13
13523252130	National Indian Youth council	in 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
13523281634	Red Berets	Nickname given to the violent wing of the Native American Indian movement.	15
13523328460	Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978	Gives tribal governments a strong voice concerning child custody proceedings that involve Indian children	16
13523336807	Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez	strengthened the tribal power of individual tribe members and furthered self-government by Indian tribes.	17
13523341546	Longest Walk protest	A 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