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=Important Events in Native American Civil Rights History:=

Trail of Broken Treaties:
The Trail of Broken Treaties occurred in the Summer of 1972 and with it, the 20 Points Paper. The 20 Points Paper was written by the American Indian Movement (AIM) leaders, Dennis Banks and Russell Means. The paper had 20 agreements that were all once considered and shot down by the government in the past. The natives culminated around the country to do a sort of mimic of the Trail of Tears to garner the attention of the media and the world of the troubles they have been facing for hundreds of years. After marching almost across the country, the group began to go into a riot attacking people and many were harmed. Sadly, because of this, most of the paper was ignored but some of the points were made into law. All the laws were made to help Native Americans gain back more reservation land and have more laws to make life a little more fair for them.

Trail of Tears:
The trail of tears took place in 1838, it is often referred to relocation that was forced upon the Native Americans. More than 40,000 died on this terrible trail. The Indian removal act of 1830 was the cause of this entire path. The treaty said that Natives must trade their land for lands in Mississippi, of course the natives never wanted to move, so their were forced, by terrible ways. This long trail lead from wherever the Native Americans used to live, to Mississippi, no matter how long the distance. After Natives and the government managed to work things out, the Cherokee were allowed to live in their lands, making them the largest Native group in the US.