GE CLST 20B Lecture 4: GE CLST 0020B Lecture 4: American Indian Movement and Ativism: Self-Determination, Treaties, and Sovereignty (Goeman)

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST 20B
• Professor: Ortiz Vilma

Document Summary

Ray attention to language common and, thus, disputed and reworked in the primary source material in our reader. Political rhetoric ( parallels the soviet treatment , 129) Framing of history (living treaties, not in the past) Appeal to treaty rights (not civil rights, specifically in tribal custom) Appeal (ethos, pathos, logos): conservation, american souls, ideas of citizenship based on kin (135), free speech. Commissioner of indian affairs john collier meets with south dakota blackfoot indian chiefs in. Naturalization act allowed for native self-government on a tribal basis. Bia moved from department of war to department of interior, which is focused primarily on land and parks because a bunch of resources are on indian land. Cannot build housings unless you get a housing permit from the bureau. Land is held in trust by the government. Assertion of treaty rights and ensuing violence and arrests in indian fish-ins. Damming of rivers that absorbed more indian land and violated treaties.