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Native American Discrimination
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Indian Removal Act of 1838
The Trail of Tears refers to the route followed by fifteen thousand Cherokee during their 1838 removal and forced march from Georgia to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).The Cherokee were forced to abandon their property, livestock, and ancestral burial grounds and move to camps in Tennessee.They continued were marched another eight hundred miles to Indian Territory. An estimated four thousand people,over 25 percent of the Cherokee Nation died during the march.
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Elk v. Wilkins
In a legal batte between John Elk, a Winnebago Indian born on an Indian reservation and Charles Wilkins, who denied Elk the right to vote. The Supreme Court decided that Native Americans were not part of the United States and didnt have the right to vote. -
The Dawes Act of 1887
the Dawes Act was created by reformers to achieve six goals:
breaking up of tribes as a social unit, encouraging individual initiatives, furthering the progress of native farmers,
reducing the cost of native administration, securing parts of the reservations as Indian land, and opening the remainder of the land to white settlers for profit.The Dawes Act had a negative effect on American Indians, as it ended their communal holding of property. -
Formation of Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA)
1922 in response to proposed anti-Indian legislation in the southwestern United States. The AAIA also joined the Senecas of New York in opposing the Kinzua Dam project, which threatened to flood a large portion of a Seneca reservation.The resistance failed, and the dam, completed in 1965, flooded Indian burial sites and forced over 700 Seneca people to relocate. -
President Obama agrees that the Redskins football name should be changed
President Obama commented on Redskins name saying
"If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team even if it had a storied history that was offending a sizeable group of people, I'd think about changing it," Obama said in an interview published by the Associated Press on Saturday.1972, about a dozen American Indian representatives demanded of then-team President Edward Bennett Williams that the organization drop the nickname, which they described as
