User:Paigeious/Native Americans in the United States

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Many people do not correlate Native Americans and the Appalachian region. However, there are five state recognized Native American Tribal Communities and three federally recognized Tribal Communities. These state recognized tribes are: Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama, Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama, Piqua Shawnee Tribe of Alabama, United Cheroke Ani-Yub-Wiya Nation, and Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee. Federally, the tribes are: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Seneca Nation of Indians of New York, and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina.

Just like every American during the 20th century, the Native Americans also struggled. Through the Great Depression, the World Wars, the Cold War, and much more during those times. Many people know about the Trail of Tears and the slaughter of Native Americans through our American history, however not many people know how Native Americans lived during the 20th century.

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Cold War

During the Cold War the issue on Native Americans rights were often forgotten due to African American rights. Many Native Americans found this time, during the Cold War, to protest for sovereignty and land by using the Cold War to promote their patriotism and loyalty to the United States. During Harry S. Truman's presidency he declared a Marshall Plan - which was to become tied allies with the Native Americans. Marc Gallicchio, an activist, spoke about how Native American and African American experiences mirrored each other, but that Native Americans viewed the Cold War differently. The Point Four program, under Truman's Presidency, would "Invest Native Americans with the responsibilities to administer development aid". The federal government wanted to recognize them as their own Nation.

Many Americans viewed reservations as "a training camp for Indians' integration into the American body politic... a foreign cultural space to be conquered through assimilative programs" Throughout the 20th century, many laws and deals came into place. "The Indian New Deal was designed to ameliorate Native American poverty and strengthen tribal self-government". However John Collier's New Deal got rejected by the Indian Reorganization Act of 1943, which encouraged governments to expand their powers over the reservation boundaries.

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Appalachia Native Histories

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Violence on the Cherokee Tribe