What Is Racial Discrimination Against Native Americans?

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Native Americans 2 Native Americans Native Americans are currently those whose ancestors lived on American land before the Europeans first began to settle on American soil and the government was established in the late 1800's. Before the founding of the United States, there were between one and ten million Native Americans. After the founding of the United States, there were about 250,000 remaining (Sullivan, 2010). During the time when America was founded, Native Americans were robbed, murdered, had their children kidnapped, their wives raped and many other heinous crimes. Their land was stolen from them as well. In 1824, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was created. This was to help the new Americans deal with the “Indian problem” (Sullivan, 2010). In 1924, Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans. In 1968, the Indian Civil Rights Act was passed, ensuring civilized treatment of Native Americans on tribal lands. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census (2005) there are now almost three million Native Americans in the U.S. Today and only 2 percent of land (56 million acres) in the U.S. is tribal land.…show more content…
Now the discrimination still exists, however it is not so obvious to spot. Native Americans who do not live on reservations seem to have less discrimination and poverty aimed toward them, however, more than half of the Native American population live on reservations around the country. “They suffer significant social, economic, and health disadvantages in comparison to other ethnic and racial groups”, (U.S. Bureau of the
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