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Beginning in 1600's and until the first half of the 1700's Native Americans were being traded as slaves.
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Europeans moved Native Americans off of the land they were living on and put them in boundaries named reservations. The Europeans claimed this would be a change in the right direction, there only intent was to take land for themselves.
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The United States decides that they should be in charge of caring for Native Americans. Native Americans are being pushed and pulled by the United States. They try to assimulate all Native American culture, or they try "take care" of them.
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Cherokees resisted removal began there march towards present-day Oklahoma. Many deaths took place during this march which is now named Trail of Tears.
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The US government passes and Appropriation Act which takes away Native American rights to form treaties with the government.
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This is the first day the boarding schools created by Europeans for Native American children. The goal of these boarding schools is to completely elimante all aspects of Native American culture and traditions. Children are forced out of there homes to live in terrible conditions. This cause of these boarding schools will be high fatality rates and extreme trauma to Native Americans.
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Native AMericans get the right to vote in the United States, but not until 1962 did they have complete rights.
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The Indian Reorganization Act was created to allow Native Americans land and allow them to practice there culture.
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Policies were put into place with two main goals, relocation and termination of Native American culture.
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Tribes now can manage health care from the Indian Health Service and other federal programs.
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The Indian Child Welfare Act That allows children that are being taken out of there homes to be placed in foster care or living situations in there reservation.
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In 1980 Social Casework devoted an issue to indigeous population.
