Native American Civil Rights Groups

1) Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
http://www.narf.org/
2) Native American Cultural Center (NACC)
http://www.nacc-inc.org/
3) The Native American Women's Health Education Rocource Center
http://www.nativeshop.org/about-us.html
4) Native American Art Studies (NAASA)
http://nativearts.org/

The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) was founded in 1970. They work on preservation of tribal existence; the protection of tribal natural resources; the promotion of Native American human rights. Also they work on the development of Indian law, and they work on educating the public about the Indian rights, laws, and issues. With most of the staff being Native American, they can help out a lot because they know their laws, rights and some of their issues. So they can help educate people about those. Some advice I have for them is to try to get their friends into helping and try to educate them first because then if they want to help then they could do the same to their friends, and so on. If they do that first then maybe they can achieve their goals. This reminds me of when people have a yard sale. To get people to come, some might tell their friends about it and then their friends would tell others and get the word around.

Works Cited for group chose:

"Native American Rights Fund." Native American Rights Fund (NARF). N.p., 1970-2011. Web. 25 May 2011. <http://www.narf.org/>.

An image that is part of the Native Ameican's Civil Rights story

The word i chose to describe this is "Persistant".

The fiery speech by Native Leader George Erasmus

In the speech by Native Leader George Erasmus, delivered on February 3^rd, 2010, I chose the line where he said, “Why can we not deal HERE, with the problems that we criticize South Africans about? Why can we not have a situation here, where Native people have enough land and enough control over their lives, and they can have some dignity?” This talks about how people don’t pay attention to the Native people’s problems but pay more attention to others. Also it’s saying how most of the Native people don’t have much land or any control over their lives. I think that he means that Natives are more put to the side and “not as important” than others and their needs. I selected this line because it talked about the Native people not having land, control over their lives, and even dignity, like most others have. So to me this was important because even with it being just one line, it gives enough information to be able to understand the way Native people are treated.  

Native American Rights

1. The 1990 Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act


2. 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, United States, protecting Indian tribes' interest in retaining custody of their children.


3. 1975 Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, establishing policy to permit greater governmental and administrative powers to Indian tribes.


4.1862 Homestead Act opens up Indian land in Kansas and Nebraska to white homesteaders, who are deeded 160-acre plots after inhabiting them for five years.

5. 1834 Congress reorganizes the Indian offices, creating the U.S. Department of Indian Affairs (still within the War Department). The Trade and Intercourse Act redefines the Indian Territory and Permanent Indian Frontier, and gives the army the right to quarantine Indians.


6.1960 Canada grants citizenship to Indians.


The 1990 Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act is important to the history of Native American civil rights. I think this because it is the protection of the Native people's possessions that are very important to them and to their history. This law means that the US now requires museums and federal agencies to return human remains, funerary, and sacred/cultural patrimony objects to show their place in a tribe that they were in but have been removed without the tribe's permission. So with this act it will keep people from holding possessions that belong to a family that might be very important to them. This reminds me of people borrowing others possessions that might mean alot to them. So when they borrow the possession they need to take care of it while they are using it and not let others fool with it. Also when the person brings the possession back to the owner the owner would want it to look just like it did before and be in good condition. This relates because with this act it makes it so the Native people can get their prize possessions back and them be protected from others just like borrowing stuff where they need to protect it and make shour it stays in good condition.


Works Cited:
This link, I used for all of these acts i found.
http://facstaff.uww.edu/guliga/uwec/american_indian_history_timeline.htm