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Native American civil rights are the civil rights of Native Americans in the United States.Native Americans are citizens of their respective Native nations as well as of the United States, and those nations are characterized under United States law as "domestic dependent nations", a special relationship that creates a tension between rights retained via tribal sovereignty and rights that ...
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
Native Americans faced racism and prejudice for hundreds of years, and they both increased after the American Civil War. Like African Americans, Native Americans were subjected to Jim Crow Laws and racial segregation in the Deep South especially after they were classified as citizens after the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
Activists for Native American rights (1 C, 111 P) Pages in category "Indigenous rights in the United States" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Asiba Tupahache, Matinecoc Nation Native American activist from New York. Clyde Warrior, activist for Native American civil rights. Kevin K. Washburn, former federal prosecutor, a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, and the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission.
History of civil rights in the United States; Human rights in the United States; Native American civil rights; Native American genocide in the United States – the notion that Native Americans have been subjected to genocide throughout their history because of racism against them, an aspect of racism in the United States; Red Power movement
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) initiated a class action suit on behalf of all Indians and tribes with pre-1966 claims. [8] On November 17, 1982, NARF obtained an order requiring the government to either submit a legislative proposal within 30 days or to initiate the 17,000 lawsuits itself before the statute expired. [8]
The Joint Special Committee on Conditions of Indian Tribes was formed on March 3, 1865, by resolution of both houses of U.S. Congress for the purpose of "directing an inquiry into the condition of the Indian tribes and their treatment by the civil and military authorities of the United States". [1]