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Bureau Indian Affairs - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 1st May, 2008 - 6:58am
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Post Date: 20th Apr, 2006 - 2:16pm / Post ID: #
Bureau Of Indian Affairs
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
According to the web site:
QUOTE The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) responsibility is the administration and management of 55.7 million acres of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives. There are 561 federal recognized tribal governments in the United States. Developing forestlands, leasing assets on these lands, directing agricultural programs, protecting water and land rights, developing and maintaining infrastructure and economic development are all part of the agency's responsibility. In addition, the Bureau of Indian Affairs provides education services to approximately 48,000 Indian students. Ref. Source 8
What are your thoughts about the handling of Indian Affairs by this agency?
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Post Date: 24th Apr, 2006 - 12:16am / Post ID: #
Affairs Indian Bureau
First thought is that they have done a horrible job of "managing" native americans. Destroying huge percentages of tribes, taking innumerable acres of land, then giving them back small portions to make up for it is sad in my opinion. True, this may be the best we have to offer those displaced, but it is a sad replacement for taking what was theirs to begin with.
Post Date: 1st May, 2008 - 6:58am / Post ID: #
Bureau Of Indian Affairs History & Civil Business Politics
My personal opinion of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is that they have been doing an abysmal job. I've often wondered if the "secret agenda" of the Bureau is to decimate the tribes instead of helping them hold onto their cultures and come into the 21 century.
I was unable to find my sources at the time of this post, but there are literally hundreds of articles and news stories about the atrocities inflicted on our indigenous citizens since the Bureau was formed in 1775 (https://www.americansc.org.uk/online/indians.htm) Among the things I am of the opinion that the US government has done wrong is that reservation Indians did not have US Citizenship until sometime in the 1960s (Granted by J F Kennedy), in spite of the fact that one of the saving graces of the Second World War was the "Wind Talkers" whose modified Navaho language allowed us to have a victory over Japan and later Germany. Thousands of American Indians have served in the armed forces of the USA and received little to no recognition for their sacrifices or relief for the enforced poverty of reservations dwelling citizens.
What I was especially trying to find was the website set up by a member of the Mohawk tribe at Ahkwesahsne in New York which details how the BIA interfered in Tribal elections to put a man who was not even Indian into the chief's position so they could better control this relatively wealthy and knowledgable People and ultimately destroy their sovereignty.
My personal opinion is that the BIA should be totally disbanded as a useless and outdated government political tool.
And no, to the best of my knowledge, I do not have any American Indian ancestry, I'm simply appalled at the treatment of the indigenous people by my European ancestors and our present government.
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