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