NAs: Militancy (1970s)
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- NAs: Militancy (1970s) - self-governing & religious & cultural rights *clockwise*
- 1968 - AIM (American Indian Movement)
- Young NAs patrolled the streets wearing red berets and jackets and monitored police activities to prevent mistreatment of Indians by authorities
- Pursued 'native sovereignty' (right to inhabit land and live according to tribal laws, religions and customs
- Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan (1972)
- Left San Francisco to travel across continent to Washington DC > purpose was to raise awareness of plight of NAs
- Violence broke out when attempts were made to evict protestors
- Had some immediate effects: Commissioner of Indian Affairs was fired and a new higher level post was made assistant secretary of the interior for Indian Affairs -filled by Iowa Indian, Melvyn Franklin
- Violence broke out when attempts were made to evict protestors
- Left San Francisco to travel across continent to Washington DC > purpose was to raise awareness of plight of NAs
- Hundreds of Indians walked from San Francisco to Washington to bring attention to historic dispossession of Indians from their households
- Longest Walk (1978)
- 1968 - AIM (American Indian Movement)
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