NAs: WWII
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- Created on: 16-04-19 12:58
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- NAs: WWII
- Economic & Employment Rights
- 25,000 NAs served with distinction in the armed forces
- Helped invade the beaches of Normandy on D Day, raise the flag on two Jima in the Pacific and pursue Germans across North Africa
- Some units used NAs the Navajo Code Talkers as radiomen because they could send messages in their tribal languages
- Helped invade the beaches of Normandy on D Day, raise the flag on two Jima in the Pacific and pursue Germans across North Africa
- GI Bill of Rights (1944) allowed returning Indian soldiers to continue their education into colleges & vocational school
- Discrimination meant they were not able to take as much advantage of these opportunities as white American war veterans
- 25,000 NAs served with distinction in the armed forces
- Religious & Cultural Rights
- Refusal to fight because of religious grounds
- National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) was a significant outcome of the war years > realisation that to bring about real improvement, Native Americans needed to unite in protest
- Set up in Denver in 1944 by a group of 80 educated Native Americans representing 50 tribes
- Worked through courts challenge discrimination in employment, unequal education provision and the breaking of treaties
- Set up in Denver in 1944 by a group of 80 educated Native Americans representing 50 tribes
- Economic & Employment Rights
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