Native American Future

In the 1950s, Native Americans were able to gain citizenship because of the support they received from the federal representatives for more than two decades. However, during the same decade, the termination of federal services took place by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the responsibility of Native Americans was given to state governments. From 1952 to 1956, Bureau sold 1.6 million acres of Native Americans land to various developers. After this incident, some political organizations such as the American Indian Movement (AIM) held protests and tried to gain attention of people towards the problems of unemployment and political ...