Declaration of The American Indian Purpose
Many important Native Americans met at the University of Chicago in June of 1961. The declaration was filled with many different recommendations regarding welfare, health, education, law, and economic development. Indians believed it was their right to be able to continue their cultural and spiritual values. It also talked about how Indians felt they had been cheated and taken advantage to since they had first started to interact. They wanted the government to help pull them out of the poverty that they had put them in. The declaration asked for the current termination policy to be stopped, and for their possibilities in education to be greater. They wanted the people that controled what went on inside the government to become the people who wanted civil and equal human rights for the Native American community, not just people who were influenced by what the government wanted.
