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The week hundreds of Native Americans took over D.C.'s Bureau of Indian Affairs


The week hundreds of Native Americans took over D.C.’s Bureau of Indian Affairs
Dana Hedgpeth
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Members of the American Indian Movement stand guard at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in November 1972. (Harvey Georges/AP)
With desks, chairs and file cabinets, hundreds of Native Americans barricaded the entrances to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in downtown Washington, just six blocks from the White House.
It was the week before the 1972 presidential election between President Richard Nixon and Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), and the group of men, women, children, activists and elders had come to the nation’s capital in a caravan of vans, trucks and cars to demand a meeting with Nixon and top officials. They wanted to describe the poor housing, underfunded schools and health crises they faced a result, they said, of the U.S. government’s failure to honor treaties with their tribal governments. ....

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