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Almost immediately Collier tried to change the government's direction by revitalizing American Indian life and culture. AIDA was also set up in response to the 1921 and 1923 Leavitt Bill, also known as the Dance Order. [3] This bill threatened to remove the right of Pueblo Indians to perform some of their traditional dances in New Mexico.
The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler–Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of American Indians in the United States. It was the centerpiece of what has been often called the " Indian New Deal ".
In the same period, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in Minneapolis, and chapters were established throughout the country, where American Indians combined spiritual and political activism. Political protests gained national media attention and the sympathy of the American public.
American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly (1997) excerpt and text search; Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (abridged edition, 1986) McCarthy, Robert J. "The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Federal Trust Obligation to American Indians," 19 BYU J. PUB. L. 1 (December ...
In addition, the American Indian Movement was founded in Minneapolis in 1968. This activism included legal challenges to the termination and relocation policy which eventually succeeded. [ 1 ] Overall, Native American activism had a large advantage in the cities over reservations, with large coalitions, proximity to other civil rights movements ...
House Concurrent Resolution 108 (H. Con. Res. 108), passed August 1, 1953, declared it to be the sense of Congress that it should be policy of the United States government to abolish federal supervision over American Indian tribes as soon as possible and to subject the Indians to the same laws, privileges, and responsibilities as other U.S. citizens. [1]
Waacking has a history steeped in the LGBTQ+ liberation movement and the freedom championed by disco music. The dance style emerged in the gay clubs of Los Angeles in the 1970s, when there was a ...
Clyde Bellecourt (White Earth Ojibwe), co-founder of American Indian Movement; Vernon Bellecourt (White Earth Ojibwe), co-founder of American Indian Movement; Mary Brave Bird (Brulé Lakota), author and activist; Ed Castillo (Luiseño-Cahuilla), Native American activist who participated in the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz in 1969.