by Montana Weekes | Nov 10, 2020
Encourages AIANs to leave reservations, assimilate into the mainstream culture in urban areas, offers to pay moving expenses and provide some vocational training. Relocated AIANs become isolated from their communities and face racial discrimination and segregation....
by Montana Weekes | Nov 2, 2020
This report is crucial since it attempted to justify the lack of progress for Indian tribes that adopted the changes imposed by the Indian Reorganization Act not considering that most of the lack of progress was due to the lack of federal financing. It is critical to...
by Montana Weekes | Nov 2, 2020
This law shows a shift in Indian policy granting authority back to tribes. However, the Act was a furtherance of the assimilation policy generally by requiring that for tribes to receive federal aid, tribes had to establish a constitution and set up a governance...
by Montana Weekes | Nov 2, 2020
The General Allotment Act or Dawes Act was another intent to assimilate Indians by authorizing the breaking up of tribal lands held in federal trust for Indian use and distribute it to individual Indian ownership. This land was taken out of trust and thus became...
by Montana Weekes | Oct 31, 2019
This is the first legislation explicit to American Indians. The Act authorized the creation of Indian schools as a vehicle to take “the Indian out of the Indian.” The Act set aside funds for Christian groups and others to create such institutions. Once again, the...
