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“the struggle is between the demands of the ‘i’ which has its needs and desires and the ‘we’ which presents its own demands. the cursed ‘i’ is incapable of anything!”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedi
In one of the largest of the relocation destinations, the San Francisco Bay Area, this would culminate in the eighteen-month occupation of Alcatraz in the late 1960s.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
As a result of their organizing, the government ceased enforcing termination in 1961, though the legislation remained on the books until its repeal in 1988.25 However, by 1960, more than a hundred Indigenous nations had been terminated. A few were later able to regain federal trusteeship through protracted court battles and demonstrations, which to
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Activists’ efforts to end termination and secure restoration of land, particularly sacred sites, included Taos Pueblo’s sixty-four-year struggle with the US government to reclaim their sacred Blue Lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. In the first land restitution to any Indigenous nation, President Richard M. Nixon signed into effe
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Native organizing, like the organization of the African American desegregation and voting rights movement, developed within the context of a nationalistic anticommunist ideology that intensified with the Cold War and nuclear arms race in the 1950s.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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