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assimilation policies
The policy of assimilation was an attempt to destroy traditional Indian cultural identities. -
Native American Treatment
The indigenous culture was fundamentally crushed, and the inter-generational inheritance of indigenous lives and spirits was under severe threats. The slaughter, forced relocation, cultural assimilation and unjust treatment the United States committed against American Indians have constituted de facto genocides. -
Reservation System
American Indians kept their citizenship in their independent tribes, -
Sioux Treaty of 1868
to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory -
The Dawn act
An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes -
The wounded knee and ghost dance
The Ghost Dance was a religious ceremonial practice that natives used as a resistance against white settlement. he town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota was seized on February 27, 1973, by followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM), who staged a 71-day occupation of the area