American Indian Self-Determination Policy Era
{"Image DocumentName": "American Indian Self-Determination Policy Era", "Image ImageDescription": "1960\u2019s- Present American Indian Self-Determination Policy In the 1960\u2019s sentiment towards American Indians begins to change. During the civil rights era, the American Indian Movement as well as other groups begin to draw the nation\u2019s attention to the plight of American Indian people and federal policy affecting them. Both President Johnson and President Nixon were champions of a policy of self-determination for American Indian peoples. In 1970, President Richard Nixon addressed Congress on the subject. President Nixon reinstates the status of some tribal nations terminated during the termination era. By the mid 1970\u2019s, Congress responds by passing two critical pieces of legislation: The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act and the Indian Child Welfare Act. This policy officially ends termination and relocation policy, emphasizes the status of tribal nations as sovereign, domestic dependent nations with a status higher than states, re-affirms treaties as, along with the constitution, the supreme law of the land, and authorizes the Bureau of Indian Affairs to contract directly with tribal nations to run their own programs and services.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}