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Native Americans
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  1. On the Verge of Extinction
    1. War and conquest
    2. Disease
    3. Virtual genocide
    4. Recent rebirth of Native Americans

  2. Resource Shares of Native Americans
    1. Income of Native Americans
    2. Occupational distribution of Native Americans
    3. Educational attainment of Native Americans
    4. Life span of Native Americans
    5. Housing of Native Americans
    6. Poverty of Native Americans

  3. The Dynamics of Discrimination Against Native Americans
    1. Identifiability of Native Americans
      1. Blood as the measure of an Indian
      2. Blood quantum as a means for exploitation
    2. Negative beliefs about Native Americans
      1. Savage redmen
      2. Fat-cat capitalists
    3. Institutionalized discrimination against Native Americans
      1. Legal discrimination
        1. key treaties
          1. The Indian Removal Act
          2. The Major Crimes Act
          3. The General Allotment Act
          4. The Indian Citizenship Act
          5. The Indian Claims Commission Act
          6. The Relocation Act
          7. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
        2. the violation and abuse of treaties
        3. the colonizing effects of treaties
      2. Political discrimination
        1. the consequences of being conquered nations
        2. political control by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
      3. Economic discrimination
        1. the economic consequences of losing land
        2. the more recent efforts at economic development
      4. Educational discrimination
        1. the boarding-school model
        2. resistance to confinement in boarding schools
        3. higher education

  4. The Stratification of Native Americans
    1. Low economic status
    2. The effects of the reservation system
    3. Identifiability, threat, and discrimination

  5. Native Americans' Responses to Discrimination
    1. War and its consequences
    2. Retreatism
    3. Pan-Indianism
    4. Economic development

  6. Summary




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