Social Sciences and History / Unit 7 SSH 0638 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sovereignty, Removal, and Self-Government
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The idea
Native Americans were first held citizens of sovereign nations, ineligible for U.S. citizenship, and forced onto reservations; the Trail of Tears, eighteen thirty-eight. The nineteen thirties granted some control over reservation land and self-government; postwar gains covered education, land use and religion.
In practice
Wounded Knee, nineteen seventy-three.
Where people slip
Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians won some land back since the sixties.
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