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In 1970, the average birth rate of Native American women was 3.29, but it declined to 1.30 in 1980. The birthrate of Apache women fell from 4.01 to 1.78. In comparison, the average white woman birth rate fell from 2.42 to 2.14. [33] By some counts, at least 25% of Native American women between the ages of 15 and 44 were sterilized during the ...
This is in comparison to the American national unemployment rate of 6.7% as of 4 April 2014, [13] or even during the worst part of the Great Depression at 25%. [14] According to the 2000 Census, Indians living in Indian country have incomes that are less than half of the general U.S. population. [15]
The Chicago Indian Village (CIV) was a short-lived American Indian affordable-housing protest group in and around Chicago, Illinois, in 1971–1972 that worked to raise awareness of and remedy poor living conditions for Native Americans in the Chicago area.
Women of All Red Nations (WARN) was a Native American women's organization that fought for Native American civil and reproductive rights. It was established in 1974 by Lorelei DeCora Means , Madonna Thunderhawk , Phyllis Young , Janet McCloud , Marie Sanchez and others.
With the return of inflation, insane gas prices, and Peter Brady, it's started to look like the 1970's revival is almost complete.However, as any cultural historian will attest, no reiteration of ...
NAIWA was founded in the summer of 1970 and was the first national Native American women's group. [2] [3] Marie Cox , from Midwest City, Oklahoma, served as founding president at the inaugural meeting, which was held in Fort Collins, Colorado. [4] [5] During the 1970s adoption reform was one of its greatest concerns. [6]
It was largely inspired by American Indian activists since the 1970s. [18] Self-determination recognizes reservations as sovereign nations within US boundaries, meaning they are able to make and enforce their own laws and regulations, are independent from states' laws and regulations, and must abide by most federal laws.
From the U.S. Bureau of the Census in 1894, wars between the government and the Indigenous peoples ranged over 40 in number over the previous 100 years. These wars cost the lives of approximately 19,000 white people, and the lives of about 30,000 Indians, including men, women, and children.