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Native Americans
US Civil Rights
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Treaty signed by US government with the Sioux Indians | Fort Laramie Treaty 1868 |
| Year that tribes lost the right to determine what happened to their land | 1871 |
| Act which granted Indians allotments of land | Dawes Act 1887 |
| The 5 civilised tribes who opposed the Dawes Act | Cherokees, Chickasaws, Chocataws, Seminoles and Creeks |
| Fraction of Indian land lost by 1934 thanks to the Dawes Act | 2/3 |
| Organisation which succeeded in blocking the Bursum Bill in 1922 | AIDA |
| Prominent Native American rights activist during the 1920s and 30s | John Collier |
| Act which ended the policy of allotment | Indian Reorganisation Act 1934 |
| Commission set up by the government in 1946 to settle land grievnaces | ICC |
| Number of claims received by ICC | 370 |
| Policy initiated in 1953 | Termination |
| Amount of land lost by tribes in Oregon and Wisconsin as a result of termination | 1/2 million acres |
| Militant Native American pressure group set up in 1968 | AIM |
| Protest led by Richard Oakes in 1969 | Siege of Alcatraz |
| Number of Indians who visited Alcatraz between 1969 and 1971 | 10,000 |
| President who ended termination | Nixon |
| AIM protest in 1973 | Occupation of Wounded Knee |
| Organisation which acted through the Supreme Court | NARF |
| What Alaskan Indians received thanks to NARF in 1971 | 40 million acres and $1 billion |
| Compensation offered to the Sioux Indians in return for the Black Hills of Dakota in 1980 | $107 million |
| Two practices banned on reservations | Medicine men and polygamy |
| Group which tried to convert Indians to Christianity | Indian Rights Association |
| Number of Indians killed at Wounded Knee in 1890 | 200 |
| Act which removed all rights of self-determination | Curtis Act 1898 |
| Court case which gave Congress the right to revoke all treaties | Lone Wolf v Hitchcock 1903 |
| Short-lived Indian pressure group set up in 1911 | SAI |
| Act which granted the vote to all Indians | Citizenship Act 1924 |
| Fraction of Indians already granted citizenship before 1924 | 2/3 |
| Court case which protected Indian voting rights | Harrison v Leveen 1948 |
| Report which condemned allotment policy | Meriam Report 1928 |
| Organisation set up in 1944 which worked through the courts | NCAI |
| Indian youth group set up in response to urban poverty | NIYC |
| Book by Dee Brown published in 1970 | Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee |
| President who passed the Indian Self Determination Act and the Indian Education Assistance Act in 1975 | Ford |
| Court case which allowed Indians to set up gambling enterprises on their land in spite of state laws | Seminole Tribe v Butterworth 1982 |
| Fraction of Indians provided with rations on the reservations | 1/4 |
| Decrease in the Native American population between 1860 and 1900 | 250,000 to 100,000 |
| Number of Indians who fought in the First World War | 10,000 |
| President who replaced Indian boarding schools with reservation ones | Hoover |
| Number of Indians who served in the army during World War Two | 25,000 |
| Number of Indians who worked in war factories during World War Two | 75,000 |
| Act which encouraged Indians to move to the cities | Indian Vocational Training Act 1956 |
| Number of Indians who had left the reservations by 1960 | 60,000 |
| Rate of unemployment among urbanised Native Americans in the 1960s | 18% |
| Life expectancy of Native Americans compared to other Americans | 20 years lower |
| Percentage of Indians who returned to the reservations | Up to 70% |
| Sioux Indian who was made Commissioner of Indian Affairs under Nixon | Louis R Bruce Junior |
| Act which increased federal funding to Indian schools | Indian Education Act 1972 |
| Amount of land lost between 1887 and 1900 | 72 million acres |
| Number of AIM protesters who took over the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington in 1972 | 1000 |
| Number of Native Americans in the US in 1990 | 1.7 million |
| Fraction of Indians living in urban areas in 1992 | 2/3 |
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