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The primary goal of Grant's Indian policy was to have Native Americans assimilated into white culture, education, language, religion, and citizenship, that was designed to break Indian reliance on their own tribal, nomadic, hunting, and religious lifestyles.
Law and U.S. public policy related to Native Americans have evolved continuously since the founding of the United States. David R. Wrone argues that the failure of the treaty system was because of the inability of an individualistic, democratic society to recognize group rights or the value of an organic, corporatist culture represented by the ...
American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly (1997) excerpt and text search; Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (abridged edition, 1986) McCarthy, Robert J. "The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Federal Trust Obligation to American Indians," 19 BYU J. PUB. L. 1 (December ...
Shortly after Grant took office as president in March 1869, he appointed Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. [13] He was the first Native American to hold the office. [13] Parker became the chief architect of President Grant's Peace Policy in relation to the Native Americans in the West. [14]
Another reforming cabinet member was United States Secretary of Treasury George S. Boutwell who was confirmed by the Senate on March 12, 1869. His first actions were to dismiss S.M. Clark, the chief of U.S. Bureau and Engraving, and to set up a system of securing the plates that the paper money was printed on to prevent counterfeiting.
Superficially marketed as a job opportunities program, the relocation act was enticing for many Native American people suffering the consequences of the termination policy. While some people volunteered to move, many were pressured to leave reservations experienced what they describe as harassed by BIA officials. [ 12 ]
Native American policy of the Barack Obama administration; Native American policy of the Richard Nixon administration; Native American policy of the Ulysses S. Grant administration; Native American recognition in the United States; Native American self-determination
Native American Rights Fund [1] National Indian Law Library [2] Indian Law Resource Center [3] Indian Law Research Guides [4] National Tribal Justice Resource Center [5] Native American Law Research Guide (Georgetown Law Library) [6] Tribal Law Gateway [7] Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project; American Indian Law Center, Inc.