Bureau of Indian Affairs
About this book
From 19th-century trade agreements and treatments to 21st-century reparations, this volume tells the story of the federal agency that shapes and enforces U.S. policy toward Native Americans. Bureau of Indian Affairs tells the fascinating and important story of an agency that currently oversees U.S. policies affecting over 584 recognized tribes, over 326 federally reserved lands, and over 5 million Native American residents. Written by one of our foremost Native American scholars, this insider's view of the Bureau of Indian Affairs looks at the policies and the personalities that shaped its history, and by extension, nearly two centuries of government-tribal relations. Coverage includes the agency's forerunners and founding, the years of relocation and outright war, the movement to encourage Indian urbanization and assimilation, and the civil rights era surge of Indian activism. A concluding chapter looks at the modern BIA and its role in everything from land allotments and Indian boarding schools to tribal self-government, mineral rights, and the rise of the Indian gaming industry.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Introduction
- Chronology
- ONE The Office of Indian Affairs, 1824–1849
- TWO The BIA in the Department of the Interior and Grant’s Peace Policy
- THREE The Reform Years and the Indian Problem
- FOUR Federal Boarding Schools and Indian Education
- FIVE Indian Land Allotment and U.S. Citizenship
- SIX John Collier and the Indian New Deal of Tribal Reorganization
- SEVEN Dillon S. Myer, Termination and Relocation
- EIGHT Indian Self-Determination and Government to Government
- Biographies of Key Figures
- Primary Documents
- Glossary
- Annotated Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index