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The policies of European settlers who settled North America towards native Americans has changed significantly over time. Laws have been passed and policies established with the intent to aid the American Indians or to move them out of the way of the "progress" of the non-Indian population. Some of the laws have supposedly created rights for the American Indian population, either as a body or as individuals. Some of these laws specified the recording of information about individual members of tribes. Some required Indians to give up their association with their native groups before they were allowed certain rights and thus recorded in records outside the designation as American Indians. | The policies of European settlers who settled North America towards native Americans has changed significantly over time. Laws have been passed and policies established with the intent to aid the American Indians or to move them out of the way of the "progress" of the non-Indian population. Some of the laws have supposedly created rights for the American Indian population, either as a body or as individuals. Some of these laws specified the recording of information about individual members of tribes. Some required Indians to give up their association with their native groups before they were allowed certain rights and thus recorded in records outside the designation as American Indians. | ||
Some of the significant general laws passed by the federal government of the United States which have affected the records of the American Indians include the following. Of course, the [[ | Some of the significant general laws passed by the federal government of the United States which have affected the records of the American Indians include the following. Of course, the [[American Indian Treaties with the United States|treaties]] between the government and the individual tribes also had a great impact upon the relationships between the specific tribe and the government, and also influenced the records kept.<br> | ||
=== 1787 - The Northwest Ordinance === | === 1787 - The Northwest Ordinance === | ||
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Several Indian nations, most notably in Connecticut and New York, sue to gain autonomy (independence) on tribal reservation land. Indians win these cases paving the way for the creation of gambling operations on reservation land. Today there are casinos on several reservations providing millions of dollars of income for those tribes. | Several Indian nations, most notably in Connecticut and New York, sue to gain autonomy (independence) on tribal reservation land. Indians win these cases paving the way for the creation of gambling operations on reservation land. Today there are casinos on several reservations providing millions of dollars of income for those tribes. | ||
=== Bibliography === | |||
*Cohen, Felix S. "Handbook of Federal Indian Law." Washington, DC:United States Government Printing Office, 1945. Second Printing. [http://thorpe.ou.edu/cohen.html Available online]. | |||
*Kappler, Charles J. ''Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties''. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. 7 volumes. WorldCat 74490963; [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=53745&disp=Indian+treaties%2C+1778%2D1883%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL book 970.1 K142i]. [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/index.htm Available online]. | |||
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