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Y319: Civil Rights in the USA 1865–1992

Native American Indians: Native Americans and the Supreme Court, Native American pressure groups

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What did the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 change?

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Name three Native American pressure groups and their distinctive contributions.

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Give two Supreme Court decisions after 1900 that supported Native American claims and one that restricted them.

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  1. 1

    What did the Supreme Court decide in Lone Wolf v Hitchcock in 1903?

    Model answer

    It held that Congress had plenary power over Indian affairs and could unilaterally abrogate a treaty without tribal consent, a ruling that removed the last legal barrier to allotment and left tribes with no judicial defence of their treaty land.

  2. 2

    What rights did Native Americans gain in 1924, and what were the limits?

    Model answer

    The Indian Citizenship Act made all Native Americans born in the United States citizens, extending it to the roughly one third — about 125,000 people — who had not already gained it through allotment or military service; but the franchise was controlled by the states, and Arizona and New Mexico continued to bar Indian voters until 1948.

  3. 3

    What did the Meriam Report of 1928 conclude?

    Model answer

    Its survey of reservation conditions found catastrophic poverty, disease and infant mortality, condemned allotment as a failure that had impoverished its supposed beneficiaries, and attacked the boarding schools as underfunded and cruel, providing the evidence base for the reforms of the 1930s.

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    What did the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 change?

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    Drafted under Commissioner John Collier, it ended allotment and returned surplus land to tribes, allowed tribes to adopt written constitutions and form business corporations, created a revolving credit fund, gave Indians preference in Bureau employment and permitted the practice of traditional religion and language.

  5. 5

    Why is the Indian New Deal regarded as only a partial success?

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    Seventy-seven tribes rejected the Act, including the Navajo, whose anger at Collier's compulsory livestock reduction outweighed any benefit; the constitutions it offered were modelled on Anglo-American forms that cut across traditional authority, and it restored very little of the land already lost.

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    Explain the termination policy of the 1950s.

    Model answer

    House Concurrent Resolution 108 of 1953 declared the aim of ending federal supervision and treaty obligations altogether; more than a hundred tribes including the Menominee and Klamath lost recognition and tax-exempt land, Public Law 280 handed criminal jurisdiction to certain states, and a relocation programme moved families to cities where many found only unemployment.

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