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Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American peoples past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land allotment and Native tribal reorganization, termination (the US government not recognizing tribes as nations), Native urban relocation (from reservations), self-determination (tribal self-empowerment), Native civil rights, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), religious freedom, economic development (including casino development), Native language revival efforts, cultural persistence, and nationhood.
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We are Indigenous to the continent now called North America.
Our leaders are sovereign and have power to make rules. Our
ways of life changed when white people arrived from Europe.
own country called the United States of America, which affected
our lives even more. Like European rulers before them, the
leaders of the new US government signed legal agreements called
treaties with our Native Nations. These treaties recognized the
sovereignty of our Native Nations to exercise control and power
over our people and lands.
sell the lands where our ancestors lived. The US government
made promises to Native Nations in almost four hundred treaties
altogether. But the federal government did not always keep its
promises to the tribes. Most of the time, their laws and policies
have been devastating.
our citizens after treaty making stopped in 1871.
regular attacks on our sovereignty,
and being mostly forgotten in US culture,
Native Nations all say,
it would be better for us to adopt their beliefs and practices.
From the countrys earliest days, white men sought to
... destroy Native families by taking our children away
and sending many to boarding schools.
... outlaw our sacred practices.
... punish us for speaking our own languages.
tribal lands. Native Nations had already given up larger
pieces of land for smaller ones in treaties.
In fact, the United States passed laws that
... gave a certain amount of land to each tribal citizen.
... sold the leftover land to white settlers and
railroad companies.
Depression, but its leaders saw how badly Native people suffered
compared to others.
Knowing that, Congress crafted a series of new laws that
... allowed Native languages and traditions to be taught in schools.
... set aside money to buy back lost tribal lands.
... changed most tribes governing systems to operate more like
the US government, which was not always helpful.
treaty agreements with more than one hundred Native Nations.
This terminated our relationship with the federal government and
no longer allowed our tribes or citizens to be legally separate in
the United States.
Although our tribes kept their part of each treaty, the United States
... sold the affected Native Nations lands and resources.
... lowered the governments financial duty to tribes nationwide.
and live and act more like white people.
So Congress passed a law that
under the law, with rights as citizens of our Native Nations
and of the United States.
... encouraged us to move to cities far from our tribal homes.
... promised jobs and schooling to those who moved.
... led to populations of poor Native people with little
support in cities and suburbs.
our long-standing commitment to
... speak out about termination and relocation.
... recover our lands and harvest traditional foods.
... draw attention to Native peoples lack of sufficient health care.
... help students go to college, including on tribal lands.
back on federal rules that oversaw nearly every part of life on our lands.
To support tribal sovereignty, the United States passed laws that
... helped Native Nations offer programs and services directly
to our citizens.
... restored many terminated tribes to federally recognized status.
... allowed some tribes to recover lands lost during allotment
and termination.
these laws, our Native Nations repeatedly say,
& Education
We needed to stop officials in various states from removing thousands of
our children from their families and placing them in non-Native homes.
Native Nations prompted Congress to approve laws that
our tribe.
... focused on Native children staying with family or other tribal citizens.
... addressed the specific education needs of Native children in
our communities.
had banned us from freely practicing our traditional religions.
Native Nations sought help from the US Supreme Court, so that
... tribes could access sacred sites outside our lands.
... tribal citizens could keep and use sacred objects.
United States succeeded. Some Native Nations opened casinos as a way to
make money on our lands where few opportunities existed.
This type of business allows those tribes to
... use profits to develop businesses and employment.
... pay for important services like police, fire stations, and health care.
... offer scholarships and after-school programs as well as operate
tribally run schools.
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