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"The General Allotment Act"

Purpose: eliminate Traditional Tribal Landholding

The Dawes Act of 1887

History of the Americas

The Wheeler-Howard Act of 1934

"the Indian Reorganization Act"

Attempted to restore indigenous communal life damaged by the Dawes Act

The Termination Acts (1953)

Julia Oliveira, Anna Ribeiro and Gui Grupenmacher

National Council of American Indians

"NCAI"

How did indigenous peoples organize themselves to change government policies?

AMERICAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Focused on reservation and tribal issues along with voting rights

Put an end to forced termination, the 1965 Indian Self- Determination act, the 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act

Indigenismo seen as a something good, mestizoes accepted :)

CANADIAN

INDIGENOUS

PEOPLE

MEXICO!

Overview of the Canadian Indigenous people's events.

Movement became more militant

Inclusion of indigenous population was paramount

Spanish as a form of cultural integration

INI (Instituto Nacional Indigenista)

Urbanization of Indigenous people led to a rise in urban activism

Good education as a driving force of cultural imposition

International attention from organs like the IMF

Indigenous Rights in Latin America (21st Century)

Occupation of Alcatraz

American Indian Movement "AIM"

Few to no nations had policies like the Mexican Indigenismo

Constitutional Reforms gave Indians voting rights (Peru, Ecuador 1980s)

Demonstration of Wounded Knee

Local protests

Guatemala undergoes Civil War, Forced Labor for Mayans, Ends in 1996

resolution of Apology to Native Peoples

Indigenous Presidents, UN Support and several other factors serve as hope for better Indigenous rights as this Century unfolds.

Government policies led to an indigenous civil rights movement

Canadian Indigenous Peoples

Conclusion

Challenges and achievements

Self-government

Indian Act

Indigenous peoples in the United States

Land claims settlements

Indigenous nationalism and organization

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