HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Trade Union, Bilingual Education, Eassy
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Least prosperous, healthy, and stable group in the nation. Average family income is less than 1k a year. Life expectancy is 20 years less than for whites. Their youths have suicide rates 100 times higher than the white population. The fed. gov is going to implement a policy of forced assimilation entities. They do this by terminating the tribes, withdrawing all recognition of tribes as legal. It is ended but not before doing major damage. They collect in 1961 and representation from 67 diff. tribes will meet in chicago and discuss common grievances/ how to fix them savages. The result of the (cid:373)eeti(cid:374)g is the (cid:862)de(cid:272)laratio(cid:374) of i(cid:374)dia(cid:374) purpose(cid:863) It is a manifesto that stresses indian self-determination. The group also tries to educate whites on what indians are really like. The difference between hollywood indians and actual indians. They su(cid:272)(cid:272)eed a(cid:374)d se(cid:448)eral years later holly(cid:449)ood is(cid:374)"t portrayi(cid:374)g the(cid:373) as.
