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Native American

Introduction

Native Americans also known as 'American Indians' were the Europeans who discovered North America. The initial passage of time between the development of the United States and the European Contact categorized within the conflict and cultural differences between Whites and Native Americans. The 2000 Census of United States reported of 2,475,956 Native Americans. Today's American Native is the descendants of those American Indians who were merely hunters searching for long-horned bison, mammoths and wild game.

Discussion

Native American Tribes

Urban/Rural Native Americans

Native Americans residing in the urban areas are the Urban Indians. They contribute towards the growing population of United States. “Individuals of Alaska Native and American Indian Ancestry” is the world applied to Urban Native Americans by National Urban Indian Family Coalition as they represent the native community in their urban area. Urban Indians classified in terms of short term visitors, forced, long-term or usual residents. They even can be tribal-specific organizations based on culture with reference to the local area, like, Navajo Community, Cherokee and Heritage Group. Any social gathering is adopted more by the urban Indians as it is a way of meeting and getting the individuals known. In the rural Native Americans, tribes are responsible for the tribal agencies. The differentiation between the traditional tribal values and dominant society's values is considered by rural Native Americans. Most of the rural Native Americans are not federally recognized. Much of the history of Native Americans is connected with rural areas that are still embarked by poverty, exploitation and neglect since ages. Rural areas comprises of 39% of Native Americans.

Native Americans In/Outside the Reservations

Land reserved as a tribal homeland by the federal government called as reservation. Supportive measures led by Relocation and Termination policy taken by the U.S. government for American Indians who left their reservations. After the time of 1970, the young Native Americans witnessed hopelessness in the reservations that made them strongly feel for the movement. In the starting period of the Termination policy, three quarters of the Native Americans, who planned to go back to their reservations were now facing unemployment and societal problems in urban areas. Native American's issues were handled greatly at large by the United States government in the past. According to, Indian Self-Determination Act, reservations have the right to develop their own tribal government gathered mostly by the elder councils or the democratic elections. The Native Americans are free from paying of taxes, trade based on their land and income.

Legislation and Federal Policies

The General Allotment or the Dawes Act of 1887

Functions of the tribal leaders were tried to be confined by the federal government. Native Americans could not have been taken on board due to the weak tribal institutions. Tribal leaders were bypassed, whereas the tribal members were turned into lone landowners. This happened due to the government's idea of converting the different diversified tribes into White society. Native Americans were helpless in homesteading adaptation.

The Reorganization/ Wheeler-Howard Act of 1934

The act's aim was of integration than approach towards ...