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The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (Public Law 93-638) authorized the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and some other government agencies to enter into contracts with, and make grants directly to, federally recognized Indian tribes. The tribes would have authority for ...
Native American civil rights are the civil rights of Native Americans in the United States.Native Americans are citizens of their respective Native nations as well as of the United States, and those nations are characterized under United States law as "domestic dependent nations", a special relationship that creates a tension between rights retained via tribal sovereignty and rights that ...
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987: Required public accommodations to comply with federal civil rights law in all aspects of its operations to receive federal funding, including in schools. Pub. L. 100–259: 1988 Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 Pub. L. 100–297: 1988
American Indian Law: A Beginner's Guide from the Library of Congress [12] Native American Law Guide: Federal Indian Law and Tribal Law materials (University of California at Los Angeles) [13] Law Library of Congress' Indians of North American Guide [14] Native American civil rights; National Congress of American Indians [15]
Native Americans faced racism and prejudice for hundreds of years, and they both increased after the American Civil War. Like African Americans, Native Americans were subjected to Jim Crow Laws and racial segregation in the Deep South especially after they were classified as citizens after the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
Schools would also have to offer a course on Native American contributions to society, but that bill was sidelined in favor of the one proposing a state-mandated Native American curriculum in K-12 ...
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
Hank Adams (Fort Peck Assiniboine-Sioux), Native American rights activist; James Anaya is the American James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law. [6] Clyde Bellecourt (White Earth Ojibwe), co-founder of American Indian Movement