American Government › Section E · Civil rights › Topic E.4
Civil rights for Native Americans, Alaskans, and Hawaiians
For most groups, civil rights means equal treatment as individuals. For Native nations it also means something no other group claims: the right to govern themselves as nations with their own lands, laws and courts.
In this topic
- Two kinds of claim
- Nations within a nation
- Citizenship and the vote
- Policy swings: assimilation to self-determination
- Worked example: the effects of termination
- Red Power and the Indian Civil Rights Act
- Laws of the self-determination era
- Recent Supreme Court rulings
- Worked example: who prosecutes the crime?
- Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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