• Native Americans disapproved of the BIA and felt it was doing more harm than good

• Stopped accepting their help and marched to their office with the goals of enacting change in the association

• They occupied the office for a week and resulted in a Native American Self-Determination Policy

Montgomery Bus Boycott

• After the arrest of Rosa Parks, many other African Americans began to boycott the public bus system

• This resulted in severe economic distress for the public transportation system

• This boycott resulted in the desegregation of public transportaion

• Four African-American friends sat at a "whites-only" counter and requested to be served food in Greensboro, North Carolina

• They chose a popular chain restaurant in the South and soon many African Americans across the South began their own sit-ins at their local Woolworths

• Increased awareness in the North about the harsh realities of what it's like to be African American in the South

Occupation of Wounded Knee:

• Starting in February of 1973 and lating 71 days, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the town of Wounded Knee

• The goal was to protest corrupt tribal leadership

• Ended in a massacre but it attracted mass media attention, thus spreading the word of their movement

• "On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration, thousands of women marched along Pennsylvania Avenue--the same route that the inaugural parade would take the next day--in a procession organized by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Designed to illustrate women's exclusion from the democratic process, the procession was carefully choreographed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, the newly-appointed chairs of NAWSA's Congressional Committee. The committee was tasked with winning passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the U.S. Constitution which was first proposed in 1878. The amendment reads:"

• Successfully helped push the 19th amendment through Congress

• https://www.nps.gov/articles/woman-suffrage-procession1913.htm

The Long Walk

• "In a forced removal, the U.S. Army drives the Navajo at gunpoint as they walk from their homeland in Arizona and New Mexico, to Fort Sumner, 300 miles away at Bosque Redondo. Hundreds die during 18 days of marching. About 9,000 Navajos reach the fort, where 400 Mescalero Apaches are already held. The tribes have a history of dispute; many arguments ensue. Food and water run short because there are twice as many people imprisoned as planned."

• This resulted in national attention and helped spread the goals of the Indian American Movement and showcase the hardships that Indigenous Americans had to face

• https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/332.html