Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON--Native Americans and their supporters, numbering from 750 to 1000 people, according to police estimates, converged on the Capitol yesterday afternoon, to protest 11 proposed legislative acts that they say would affect the rights and sovereignty of Indian nations...
...demonstrators said their walk symbolized a reversal of the forced westward migration of Indian tribes in the 18th and 19th centuries...
...participants in yesterday's demonstration spent Sunday night camping at Green Belt Park and then took buses to Capitol Hill. Marching through the mall towards the Capitol building, the protesters beat drums and sang traditional Indian hymns...
Brightman attacked the alleged sterilization of Indian women, against their will, by doctors in the Indian health services. Brightman said he may bring a $300-million class-action law suit against the head of the Indian Health Services...
Other bills includes a proposal that would direct the president to abrogate all treaties between the federal government and the Indian tribes, and several acts that would limit the off-reservation fishing and hunting rights of native Americans, who presently are not bound by state game laws...