HIST 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Indian Reorganization Act, Land Trust, Indigenous Rights
19 Oct 2018
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The people who went to wounded knee asked the government enforce their land and sovereignty rights under the treaty of 1868. They asked for an independent investigation of the. Bia"s mishandling of the oglala rights and interests. They asked that the pine ridge constitution to be ruled invalid under the indian reorganization act of. 1934 and that new tribal elections, freed from violence and fraud be reorganized. A treaty commission should examined the 371 treaties that the us has made and broken with. Indigenous peoples, all treaty rights should be enforced. The 1972 trail proposal called for restoration to indian control of at least 110 million acres of land. The federal government in trust holds about 50 million tribal acres and an additional 10 million held in trust for individual tribal members. A lot of the land is leased out for white interests.
