Reply #11: Colonialism in America

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1961 American Indian Chicago Conference to promote tribal sovereignty and survival. Later that year, a more militant organization called the National Indian Youth Council is formed. Many other Indian organizations are formed throughout the 1960s, and they all sought an end to termination and relocation policies and demanded self-determination for Indian peoples.
1969 A small group of militant Native Americans calling themselves the "Indians of All Tribes" occupy the (abandoned) island to protest conditions in contemporary Indian America. The occupation lasted for two years and brought national attention to problems in Indian country.
1970 President Richard Nixon formally ended the Termination policy.


1970 The Blue Lake, sacred to the Pueblo, had been declared a national forest in 1904. Taos Pueblo people were not allowed to travel to the lake without a permit from the U.S. government. For the next sixty years, the Pueblo formally protested the government's treatment of Blue Lake. They finally succeeded in regaining possession of the Lake and 48,000 acres around the lake in 1970.
1970 Dee Brown, Bury my Heart At Wounded Knee, published.
1972 "The Trail of Broken Treaties" AIM members and other Indian leaders organize Washington, D.C. protest to demand that the U.S. government recognize tribal rights to self-determination. While in Washington, Indians occupy BIA headquarters.


1973 AIM members and Lakota Sioux occupy the trading post at Wounded Knee Village to draw attention to problems on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
1975 In response to the storm of Indian protests, "the Congress hereby recognizes the obligation of the United States to respond to the strong expression of the Indian people for self-determination by assuring maximum Indian participation in the direction of educational as well as other Federal services to Indian communities so as to render such services more responsive to the needs and desires of those communities."
1975 Two FBI agents are killed at Pine Ridge. Leonard Peltier, an AIM member, is later convicted of the killings and sent to federal prison.
1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act. Requiring federal agencies to analyze the impact of federal development on Native American sacred sites.

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