16. The lack of unity and its impact on Native American civil rights
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- 16. The lack of unity and its impact on Native American civil rights
- Rivalries between tribes meant NAs were unable to present united front against government
- Not only did many of tribes fight gov during Plains Wars but also fought against each other
- Tribes often willing to provide US forces with guides who knew land and aid gov in pursuit of other tribes
- Rivalry cont. on reservations and added to their difficulty in stopping theft of their lands
- Many tribal leaders (knowing could not best US gov forces) made treaties with gov
- Resistance from Five Civilised Tribes
- Source of some resistance to amendment to Dawes Act
- Ended in failure
- First major attempt to resist assimilation
- Lack of unity continued continued to be a problem in early decades of 20th Century
- Attempts of resistance did occur, such as Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock case
- Concerted action was rare
- Society of American Indians
- Founded 1911
- Established first NA pressure group
- Lack of funds and mass support limited its impact
- Impact also partly limited because NAs were spread out across whole country but also they had no agreed aim for future
- 1920s and 1930s
- Witnessed some gains for NAs
- Took place because of change in attitude among some American people rather than result of NA actions
- Group of reformers, social scientists and anthropologists who wanted to preserve NA culture had emerged
- Their interest and work resulted in Meriam Report (1928)
- Report condemned allotment policy
- Outlined terrible conditions in which NAs lived
- Concluded gov should be concerned with 'social and economic advancement of the Indians so that they may be absorbed into the prevailing civilization at least in accordance with a minimum standard of health and decency'
- Report encouraged change, leading to Rhoads reforms of 1929 and reforms of 1930s during New Deal
- Rhoads reforms
- Reforms closed off-reservation boarding schools, to which NA children had been sent
- Schools were replaced by better schools on reservations
- These were also to be improvements in medical facilities
- Rhoads reforms
- Their interest and work resulted in Meriam Report (1928)
- Witnessed some gains for NAs
- Rivalries between tribes meant NAs were unable to present united front against government
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