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Definition and meaning of Indian policies

Indian policies - [Social Studies]

Since the arrival of Columbus in North America, Native Americans have faced European diseases, expansion, and competitiveness. Conflict over the rights of settlers to locate on land occupied by Native Americans prompted wars with tribes throughout the east and west. The traditions of Native Americans disappeared as they were removed from their homelands, isolated on reservations, and forced to abandon their rituals. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, established to care for the Indians, was challenged to make their lives on reservations bearable. In efforts to assimilate Native Americans, Congress passed the Dawes Act in 1887. It dissolved many tribes as legal entities, did away with tribal ownership of land, and gave heads of individual families 160 acres. If they cooperated, they secured title and citizenship in 25 years, a period of time later extended. Many Native Americans refused to comply with the act and stayed on their reservation land. All Native Americans were not granted citizenship until 1924. The idea of destroying tribal culture to further assimilation remained an aspect of federal policy until the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 which attempted to restore the tribal basis of life as a way to realize social and economic reform. After World War II, the federal government again reduced aid to Indian reservations and confiscated more land. In the 1960s, following the example set by African Americans in their quest for civil rights, Native Americans formed the American Indian Movement to.

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The meaning of Indian policies is an excerpt from Texas Education Agency - The Social Studies Center at Texas University:

"The Social Studies Center (2000-2003) was the successor to the Social Studies Center for Educator Development, which was funded by the Texas Education Agency from 1997 - 2000. The Texas Education Agency awarded a grant to Educational Service Center Region VI in Huntsville, in collaboration with Texas A&M University in College Station and Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, to create a social studies center for professional development in curriculum and assessment."

See the website here: http://www.tea.state.tx.us

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