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Native American rights

Dawes act- Says that the American government could buy the "excess" land from Native Americans 1887 -head of family 160 acres -orphan under 18 80 acres -persons under 18 40 acres - 90 millon acres of land taken away in 1887 -1932 through law suits and other land was taken back

Voting Indian Citizenship Act was passed and stated that the Native Americans did not have to leave their

Education: Religion
 * For years Native Americans have been victims of unequal schooling.
 * NIEA was formed to fight for equal education rights in 1969

Indian Civil Rights Act 1968 Traveling Rights
 * Religous persecution was apart of their oppresion as well
 * Native Americans could be fined for practicing their beliefs
 * Native Americans were given the rights many of them were fighting for
 * right to free speech, press, and assembley,
 * protection from search and seizure
 * speedy trial
 * right to hire attourney
 * protection against self incrimination
 * and equal protection under the law
 * Many other rights were such as sovereignty, hunting and fishing, voting, and traveling have been fought for.
 * The US government attempted to restrict the travel

Major Points in History

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Major People: work cited
 * John Elk 1884
 * Charles Wilkins- denied right to vote
 * Jacob Howard- 1866 Michigan, against them, not prepared pass act with savegaes voting with him.
 * Swift v leach- 1920. leach was against the wanted the North Dakota Tribe to stay within their boundaries and not vote.
 * Henry L. Dawes
 * President Grove Cleveland-Dawes Act 1887, Dawes attolment act
 * Homer P Snyder-Indian act of 1924
 * Presidet Calvin Coolridge-Indian citizinship act
 * Lyndon B Johnson-Voting Rights act-1965
 * FDR and Administration 1934
 * Dennis Banks and George mitchell-1968-Now. They set American Indian Movement and it is still settling issues today

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"Roosevelt Administration Aids Native Americans." //American History and World History at Historycentral.com the largest and most complete history site on the web//. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2012. < [] >. .

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