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- Title
Reparations, Self-Determination, and the Seventh Generation.
- Authors
Graham, Lorie M.
- Abstract
The article examines the historical abuses against the rights of North American Indians and proposes a domestic reparations based on the international human rights law. It states that both the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs were too inclined to transfer the responsibility for Indian education from the government to states in 1950s. It says that the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) was designed to prevent the repetition of harm on indigenous children and to assist indigenous nations in reconstituting their familial structure.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INDIGENOUS peoples; NATIVE Americans; REPARATIONS for historical injustices; UNITED States. Congress; UNITED States. Bureau of Indian Affairs; EDUCATION of the indigenous peoples of the Americas; LEGAL status of Native American children; OFFENSES against the person
- Publication
Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2008, Vol 21, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
1057-5057
- Publication type
Article