Native Americans and Indians Revised

Native Americans/Indians
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Social/Economic/Political status factors
There are about 6.6 million native Americans and Indians. Despite that, they are scattered all across the country and in remote areas. Following that, their power to participate in public activities such as voting was always less compared to other groups until 1965 (Turkewitz, 2018). The Congress enacted the Voting Rights Acts that prohibited elections that discriminated against people based on race. Since the 19th century, the Indians and natives remained unrecognized and of low social position until the reorganization in 1934 (Wunder, 2004). There are various policies targeting the Indians and native Americans such as free health and providing help to families with needy children (Prucha, 1985). In 1984, there was a program that aimed at helping the Indians and natives relocate to urban centers where there are more jobs to help raise their economic status in the society.
Overt and Covert mechanisms of oppression
The native Americans and Indians undergo oppression which targets at privileging the whites over people of the color Churchill, 2004). The discrimination on the above perspective discourages merging of people across the country which inhibits both social and economic activities that might be of importance (Jones, 2017). The social environment Justice as the natives is criminalized at a higher rate than the whites just because of their color (Ross, &amp…