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The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler–Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of American Indians in the United States. It was the centerpiece of what has been often called the " Indian New Deal ".
Indian Appropriations Act; Racial Integrity Act; Indian Citizenship Act of 1924; Indian Reorganization Act of 1934; Jim Crow laws; Blood quantum laws; Native Americans and World War II; American Indian boarding schools; Civil rights movement; Red Power movement; Native American rights; Alcohol and Native Americans; Native American temperance ...
When an Indian nation files suit against a state in U.S. court, they do so with the approval of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In the modern legal era, the courts and Congress have, however, further refined the often competing jurisdictions of tribal nations, states and the United States in regard to Indian law. In the 1978 case of Oliphant v.
In 1934, Congress passed the Indian Reorganization Act which sought to reorganize tribal systems of governance into forms foreign to Indians. Simultaneously, under the Indian Reorganization Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) began to gain approval power over Indian constitutions, resource development, and cultural activities. A new era of ...
Texas has "no legal mechanism to recognize tribes," as journalists Graham Lee Brewer and Tristan Ahtone wrote. [7] The Texas Commission for Indian Affairs, later Texas Indian Commission, only dealt with the three federally recognized tribes and did not work with any state-recognized tribes before being dissolved in 1989. [2]
Waacking has a history steeped in the LGBTQ+ liberation movement and the freedom championed by disco music. The dance style emerged in the gay clubs of Los Angeles in the 1970s, when there was a ...
Indian Appropriations Act; Racial Integrity Act; Indian Citizenship Act of 1924; Indian Reorganization Act of 1934; Jim Crow laws; Blood quantum laws; Native Americans and World War II; American Indian boarding schools; Civil rights movement; Red Power movement; Native American rights; Alcohol and Native Americans; Native American temperance ...
The Meriam Report was the first general study of Indian conditions since the 1850s, when the ethnologist and former US Indian Agent Henry R. Schoolcraft had completed a six-volume work for the US Congress. The Meriam Report provided much of the data used to reform American Indian policy through new legislation: the Indian Reorganization Act of ...