History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2102 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Native Life in 1970
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The idea
In nineteen seventy the average Native American could expect to live forty-six years, against a national average of sixty-nine, the anchor records.
In practice
A new spirit of political militancy, Digital History says, arising among the first Americans as it had among Black Americans and women.
Where people slip
Digital History calls Native Americans the nation's poorest minority through the nineteen sixties, by virtually every measure.
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