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The Civil Rights Movemnet
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Fish-Ins
Fish-Ins were protests by the American Indian Movement and its supporters against government interference in traditional Native-American fishing areas. The involvment of the government angered the Indians and caused them to act out through marches and protests in order to get there fishing areas returned to them. The fish-ins led directly to the most important legal case in the Native American fishing debate in the past one hundred and twenty years, U.S. v. Washington. -
Occupation of Alcatraz
The occupation of Alcatraz was an occupation of Alcatraz Island by the group Indians of All Tribes. It lasted for nineteen months. The indians were reclaiming it as Indian land and demanding fairness and respect for Indian peoples. The occupation of Alcatraz was about human rights. It was forcibly ended by the government in the middle of 1970 -
Founding of AIM
The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a Native American activistorganization in the United States, with an agenda that focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty.The organization was formed to address various issues concerning the Native American urban community in Minneapolis, including poverty, housing, treaty issues, and police harassment. They opened the Red School House, Heart of the Earth Survival School and participated in the Trail of Broken Treaties. -
Occupation of Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior. It is responsible for the administration and management of 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km2) of land held in trustby the United States for Native Americans. The takeover happened almost by accident. -
Occupation of Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee incident began February 27, 1973 when about 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The grassroots protest followed the failure of their effort to impeach the elected tribal president Richard Wilson, whom they accused of corruption and abuse of opponents; they also protested the United States government's failure to fulfill treaties with Indian peoples -
Problems Today
The Native American community faces a unique type of discrimination and they're still experiencing racism today, It is often difficult for the Native Americans to not be judged by the population and are often ridiculed for issues they have nothing to do with. Hidden bias against Native Americans leads people to see them as less of a person still today and although racism has come to a much better place it still is prominent and causes issues. -
Accomplishments
The Native Americans throughout the Native American Rights Movement gained the ability to vote, integrate with the white Americans, affirmative action and equal rights in the work place. This mean that they were making progress. They didn’t get all that they wanted but made progress. -
Biography of Main Leaders
Dennis Banks was a Native American leader and also a teacher, lecturer, activist, and author. He has been a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he cofounded in 1968 with Native Americans in Minneapolis.
George Mitchel was a Native American activist. He was the leader of the American Indian Movement and helped curved racial profiling of indians.
