The passage of the federalVoting Rights Act of 1965,brought on by the Civil Rights movement led by African American leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., outlawed discriminatory voting practices and protected the right to vote within communities of color. The Voting Rights ...
Learn about Native American tribes and leaders like Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Tecumseh, and events like the Trail of Tears, the French and Indian War, the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the American Indian Movement (AIM).
native american coalition essays It's difficult to draw a comparison between an article about persons in opposition to dam construction in western United States and another article about trends in American consumerism. However, there is an underlying mes
Minnesota - Native American, Fur Trade, Pioneers: Until the middle of the 19th century, two major peoples occupied what is now Minnesota: the Ojibwa (also called Chippewa or Anishinaabe) in the north and east and the Dakota (Sioux) in the south and west.
Indigenous American peoples are any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The ancestors of contemporary Indigenous American peoples were members of nomadic hunting and gathering cultures. The earliest of these groups to reach North America
The 1960s were the genesis of Native American activism. Urban Native communities, formed by the American Indian Urban Relocation program of the 1950s, were tough and deplorable places to live. The American Indian Movement formed as a result and by 1968, the Indian Civil Rights Act was passed...
Born in 1824, Johnson became one of the strange breed of wandering trappers and traders called mountain men in Western mythology, after he deserted from the US army during the Mexican-American War. In later years he served during the Civil War, worked in various law enforcement jobs around ...
Confederate soldiers rounding up Black people in a church during the American Civil War, Nashville, Tennesee, the 1860s. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, established that all enslaved people in Confederate states in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward...
Missionizing of North American Indians was largely assimilationistic for a century-and-a-half, but Methodist leaders became concerned about Indian cultural identity after the 1960's civil-rights movement. The Lawrence (KS) Indian United Methodist Church is used as a case study of how this ...
“NOTABLE NATIVE PEOPLE: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present” is an series of fifty profiles of Indigenous people from American Indian, Alaska Native, and Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) communities, with spreads on things like “Settler Colonialism 101,”“Who...