Native Americans Civil Rights

 
 
 
 
Summary: "Custer Died for Our Sins and "Indians of All Tribes..."

In a pair of related works, Native American civil rights activist Vine De Loria and Indians of All Tribes make a compelling case for reconsidering the ways in which the civil rights of Native Americans have been treated and the rights of Native Americans to regain control over territory that has been usurped by Caucasians over the past several hundred years. In "Custer Died for Your Sins," De Loria (294) states that "by defining the problem as one of race and making race solely refer to black, Indians were systematically excluded from consideration." Indians, said De Loria (294), have been classified as whites due to laws that were designed to exclude blacks but in other areas Native Americans are classified as blacks or non-whites in order to differentiate them and their rights from those of Anglo Americans.

Over time, De Loria (295) says that Indians have been defined as animals with which the whites had some relation and who were in desperate need of the "civilizing tendencies of the invading white."


     
 
 
 
    

 

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