Title: Native Americans: Centuries of Struggle in North America | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: Native Americans: Centuries of Struggle in North America
Native Americans: Centuries of Struggle in North America
Native Americans: Centuries of Struggle in North America
The Conflict
Political
Ethnic
Economic
Historical Background
Native Americans Today
History of U.S.-American Indian Relations
Treaties, Removal, and Reservations
Assimilation
Reorganizing Tribal Governments
Termination
Tribal Self-Determination
Status of Indigenous Populations Worldwide
Alaskan Natives
Hawaiian Natives
Natural Resource Use and Management
Treaty Rights
Economic Development-The Rise of Economies in the 1990s
Other Effects of Economic Gains
Modern Reaction to Tribal Sovereignty
Legal Jurisdiction
Major Figures
Recent History and the Future
Bibliography
Chronology
Leonard Peltier

Content: The U.S. government provides for limited independence within the context of the United States. Political
Native Americans believe they compose distinct nations who have not voluntarily joined the United States and should have sovereignty. They believe the United States has duplicitously broken treaties. Legal issues include forest management, mineral development, water rights, and reparations. The United States provides special rights, including limited autonomy, to Native Americans, which it does not provide to any other groups within the country. Ethnic
• Ethnic discrimination has limited the achievements of Native Americans. Economic
Native Americans feel marginalized and impoverished by the United States and have been removed from valuable land. Native American organizations have sued the U.S. government's Bureau of Indian Affairs. I n American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century, Vine Deloria, Jr. wrote: " The federal-Indian relationship … is like no other in the world… Indian tribes appear to have the same political status as … independent states … yet they … seem to be forever mired in a state of political and economic pupilage."