Native Americans - progress and development

Question 1

What is the Dance order?

Answer 1

(1923) This banned Native Americans from practising some of their traditional dances.

Question 2

What other improvements did the New Deal bring?

Answer 2

• Improved condition on the reservations, as New deal agencies built schools and hospitals.
• It encouraged women to take on greater economic role, and higher education.
• It ended the allotment policy, but not assimilation.

Question 3

Why was movement to urban areas bad?

Answer 3

• ended up in bad accommodation
• if they found a job, were poorly paid.
• Literacy rates were low and disease high.

Question 4

What are the statistics of urbanisation?

Answer 4

• Unemployment was 18%
• life expectancy at 44, was 20 years below average.
• Over 50% returned to their reservations.

Question 5

What is the population significance of self-determination 1969-92?

Answer 5

1970: 800,000
1990: 1.7 million

Question 6

what was the Dawes act

Answer 6

(1887) broke up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals - 160 acres each

Question 7

when did natives gain citizenship

Answer 7

The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924