Native Americans Essay

law enforcement jurisdiction into Indian territories, effectively breaking all treaties that guaranteed they could have responsibility for law enforcement themselves” as well as the “The Indian Citizenship Act (1924). This conferred U.S. citizenship on all Indians who wanted it and would renounce their claims to tribal identity.” and the “Relocation Act (1956). This qualified Indians for job training if they moved off the reservation to urban areas” (Dakota Blues). In addition, tribal lands have been co=opted, federally, and many native Americans of Sioux descent have been forced to seek government employment at a diminished rate of pay: “Some 60% of all Native Americans work for the government in some capacity via [..

.] business-lease subsidy arrangements[…

] Four babies were discovered still alive, wrapped in their dead mothers’ shawls. Most of the other children were dead” (Dakota Blues). The massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee is an obvious example of brutality and injustice; however, as recounted in the above remarks, prejudice and discrimination against the Sioux tribes persist is subtler but no less damaging forms to this day. Works CitedMeyer, Roy W. History of the Santee Sioux United States Indian Policy on Trial.

Revised ed. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.Dakota Blues: The History f the Great Sioux Nation, 9-25-06, http://www.dakotablues.nl/ accessed 10-15-06