Native American Movement &

Chicano Movement

Fight for Rights

Honor or Insult?

Stereotypeshttp://www.youtub

e.com/watch?v=_hJFi7SRH7Q&feature=related

SavageUncivilizedWhat stereotypes

have you seen or heard about Native Americans?

In 1999, the crayon was changed to chestnut.

Was the issue of the name Indian

Red racist?

Native Americans: Whose Land is It Anyway?

Under the Northwest Ordinance land was not suppose to be taken

Under President Andrew Jackson tribes were moved to reservation

Indian Removal Act 1830-westward expansion forces Native Americans to move westFair??????

Forced AssimilationMake natives more like mainstream America.Schools teaching EnglishSome cut hair-lost traditionTermination Policy (1950s):US gov’t that divides property

among tribes which ends federal responsibility and social services (health, education, welfare).

Many local tribes and reservations: SOVERIGN- INDEPENDENT NATIONS

1924 Indian Citizenship Act

They are U.S. citizens

Suffrage- not until 1944

The American Indian Movement (AIM)

Founded 1968Fought for land rights,

against poverty, harassment, better conditions on reservations

The Longest Walk of 1978 -3600 mile walk to DC to protect rights

NCRSM- Fights racism in sports and media today

Today:High levels of PovertyMassive alcoholism,

diabetic, and obesity rate from government subsidized foods

High school drop out rateMany reservations lack

running water and have poor conditions

Underrepresented in government

Fighting Environmental rights

Caesar Chavez

A Mexican American best known as Latino Civil Rights activist

Co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW)

Approach: Nonviolent tacticsBoycottsSit-insMarchestStikes

Dolores Fernandez HuertaShe left teaching when “I

realized I couldn’t do anything for the kids who came to school hungry and barefoot.”

Helped found NFWA with Chavez in 1962 with grape pickers strike.

Also- Feminist who strove for women’s rights. Awards with NOW and NAACP

Today she continues to work as activist for farmworkers and women.

Raza Unida Party

Founded in 1970 by youth groupThird party that centered on Chicano nationalism.

Still fighting for equal opportunity today: voting, education, citizenship/immigration.