The Native American culture

The Native Americans of today tend to be either reservation Indians or urban Indians, and since World War II the urban Indian population has increased greatly, reducing the size of the reservation population. This has been one of the reasons for the destruction of the Indians' own culture:

For better or worse, urban Indians are more intimately involved in the dominant culture than their reservation brethren, though even the latter have become "urbanized"--more sophisticated--through travel, school, movies, television, and their own production of news and entertainment (Jennings 399).

The reservation of the Chippewa is described as part of

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sputes. Most knew the laws and religious rules were known and followed by the majority in the population, and there were both political and religious leaderships to settle disputes and controversies. The division between religions infractions and crimes was not clear, and often a ritual cleansing for the whole tribe was necessary when a crime was committed. Different tribes had different crimes that were considered more onerous and more shameful (Hirschfelder and de Monta±o 71). The federal Indian policy of the U.S. government had a profound effect on tribal governments and has changed dramatically over the last two centuries, creating turmoil for tribal governments. In the late 1700s, the U.S. treated the indian tribes as independent sovereign nations. in the mid-1800s, the federal government more and more attacked traditional tribal governments, and the federal policy of forced relocation to Indian reservations caused severe disruptions in traditional governing bodies. From the late nineteenth century to about 1930, the U.S. followed a policy of breaking apart Indian reservations and assimilating Native Americans into mainstream non-Indian society, and the allotment of Indian lands and the forced assimilation of the peopl
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