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1. Do you believe it was right for the government to arrest these men during the Incident at Wounded Knee?

2. Out of the 4 people, who do you believe had the biggest impact on the Native American Civil Rights Movement?

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Social activist group dedicated to the well being and acculturation of Native Americnas Founded by non-Indians in 1882, the Indian Rights Associations (IRA) was highly influential in American Indian policy through the 1930s and remained involved as an organization until 1994. The organization's aim  was to give complete citizenship.
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It was a cross country protest, that was staged in the autumn of 1972 in the US by Native Americans. It was designed to bring attention to American Indian issues, treaty rights, living standards, and inadequate housing. President Nixon wouldn't hear the protestors at the time and sent them away.
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It granted Native Americans full access to the Bill of Rights. This had guaranteed them the right to freedom of religion, the right to habeas corpus or justification of lawful imprisonment and the right to a trial by jury. Which includes that their civil rights are protected and that they would be able to govern themselves
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Founded in 1944, the National Congress of American Indians is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization of tribal governments and communities. It is a non-profit organization which fights for a better future for generations to come by taking the lead to gain consensus on a constructive and promising vision for Indian Country.
https://bit.ly/2I73AHU

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American Indian Affairs is the oldest non-profit serving Indian Country protecting sovereignty, preserving culture, educating  youth and building capacity. The Association was formed in 1922 to change the destructive path of federal policy from assimilation, termination and allotment, to sovereignty, self-determination and self-sufficiency.
https://bit.ly/2cBZ00Z

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On February 27, 1973, about 250 Sioux indians, led by AIM, took over the Pine Ridge Reseravtion in South Dakota, starting a 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee. This was triggered by unsafe living conditions and generations of mistreatment by federal and local government.
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The brother of Clyde Bellecourt, who also was a Native American activist. He was a special representative of the International
Indian Treaty Council and in 1974 helped organize
the first international conference of Indigenous Peoples
under United Nations to proclaim their rights.

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Clyde Bellecourt was a Native American activist who co-founded the American Indian movement with Dennis Banks and many others in 1968. Bellecourt ahelped draft twenty demands that were put before the government during the Indian occupation of a Bureau of Indian Affairs building in 1972.
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This act allowed for all Native Americans who are born in the United States are citizens. Before this act, the 14th Amendment didn't clearly specify that Native Americans gain citizenship when they are born, so this act solves this problem.
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Russell Means was a longtime Native American avtivist who was also a member of the American Oglala Sioux tribe. When he was 25, he held a rally on Alcatraz Island to protest a government treaty that promised unused government land would be returned to the original occupants.
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Concentrates on enforcing laws regarding rights to equal protection and to be free from discrimination in voting, education, incarceration and religion. Also develops laws that provide protections for collective traditions , culture and property such as sacred places.
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Dennis Banks was a Native American activist who co-founded the American Indian Movement and helped lead the 1973 armed occupation of Wounded Knee. As on of the most prominent leaders of AIM, he faced many felony assault and riot charges but was later aquitted of wrongdong.
https://n.pr/2S0NEa5