ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, American Indian Movement
20 Apr 2017
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Post contact: many tribes decimated as a result of disease, complex networks of alliances and contentious relationships emerge, some ally with european colonizers and later us government, ex. Upper and lower creeks: assimilation efforts, christianity, agriculture, native americans allowed to occupy land, but not hold title. Indian removal act, 1830: passed (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)g(cid:396)ess du(cid:396)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d(cid:396)e(cid:449) ja(cid:272)kso(cid:374)"s p(cid:396)eside(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455, authorized the president to negotiate with southeastern tribes for their removal to oklahoma, trail of tears, reservations controlled by us government, prohibitions on religion. Indian boarding schools: (cid:862)kill the i(cid:374)dia(cid:374), sa(cid:448)e the (cid:373)a(cid:374). (cid:863) Inequality i the reservation system: cannot prosecute american citizens for crimes committed on tribal lands, only the justice department can, complexities of sovereignty and land ownership. Locational and economic inequality: pine ridge reservation, 80+% unemployment, many familied have no electricity, running water sewage, environmental inequality, us waste disposal, navajo nation, church rock uranium mine spill.
