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Examining the Fight for Rights: Native American and Chicano Movements

This video explores the historical and contemporary struggles faced by Native American and Chicano communities, highlighting key movements like the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the activism of figures such as César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. It addresses issues such as forced assimilation, stereotypes, land rights, and the ongoing fight for equality, suffrage, and environmental rights. Through real stories and activism, it sheds light on the impact of policies and societal perceptions that have shaped the lives of these marginalized communities.

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Examining the Fight for Rights: Native American and Chicano Movements

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  1. Fight for Rights Native American Movement & Chicano Movement

  2. Honor or Insult?

  3. Stereotypes • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hJFi7SRH7Q&feature=related • Savage • Uncivilized • What 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?

  4. 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 west Fair??????

  5. Forced Assimilation • Make natives more like mainstream America. • Schools teaching English • Some cut hair-lost tradition • Termination 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

  6. 1924 Indian Citizenship Act • They are U.S. citizens • Suffrage- not until 1944

  7. The American Indian Movement (AIM) • Founded 1968 • Fought 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

  8. Today: • High levels of Poverty • Massive alcoholism, diabetic, and obesity rate from government subsidized foods • High school drop out rate • Many reservations lack running water and have poor conditions • Underrepresented in government • Fighting Environmental rights

  9. 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 tactics • Boycotts • Sit-ins • Marchest • Stikes

  10. Dolores Fernandez Huerta • She 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.

  11. Raza Unida Party • Founded in 1970 by youth group • Third party that centered on Chicano nationalism. • Still fighting for equal opportunity today: voting, education, citizenship/immigration.

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