10. The Presidency of Nixon for Native American Civil Rights
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- 10. The Presidency of Nixon for Native American Civil Rights
- Already some signs prior
- Change encouraged by realisation conditions and opportunities worst of any group in USA
- Johnson talked of 'forgotten Americans' to Congress
- Set out programme of self-help and respect
- Greater changes occurred under Nixon and Ford
- Largely because Nixon's view of how NAs had been treated, but partly due to ideas Johnson had expressed
- July 1970, Nixon in his message to Congress criticised treatment of NAs:
- 'American Indians have been oppressed and brutalised, deprived of their ancestral lands and denied the opportunity ton control their own destiny'
- In particular, Nixon attacked federal programmes designed to help them, but which had been dominated by white officials
- Nixon attacked policy of termination, which had failed to improve their lives and, as a result, ended many lives instead
- Nixon introduced programme of reform
- Educational provision for NAs
- Improved through 1972 Indian Education Act
- Increased amount of money available for NA schools, even on reservations
- Policy continued by future presidents
- Improved through 1972 Indian Education Act
- Some NA nations which lost status, regained recognition and rights
- Some Nations, which lost their status. regained recognition and rights
- Allowed them access to courts where they could seek redress for loss of rights
- Pledge to restore lost lands was put into practice with return of lands to Makah, Taos Pueblo and Yakama Indians.
- NA, Louis R. Bruce Jr.,was appointed Commissioner for Indian Affairs and policy of affirmative action was pursued in appointments in Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Educational provision for NAs
- Although progress in regaining tribal lands was slow because of number of vested interest groups who opposed it, a start had been made
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