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Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins demonstrating European methods of farming to Creek (Muscogee) on his Georgia plantation situated along the Flint River, 1805. The most important facet of the foreign policy of the newly independent United States was primarily concerned with devising a policy to deal with the various Native American tribes it bordered.
At the request of Native American leaders in the state, in 1971 the North Carolina General Assembly authorized the creation of the Commission of Indian Affairs. [1] The enabling legislation of the commission tasked it with four goals: to provide services to Indian communities, to promote social and economic development, to promote recognition of Indian culture, and to preserve Indian cultural ...
The Supreme Court affirmed a Native American adoption law that gives preference to Native Americans in the adoption process.
American Indians, Time, and the Law: Native Societies in a Modern Constitutional Democracy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-04136-1. Wilkins, David (2011). American Indian Politics and the American Political System. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-9306-1. "Indian Affairs" . New International Encyclopedia ...
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The Supreme Court sounded split on a federal child custody law that sends Native American children to be adopted by tribal families.
In the late 1800s, the federal government pursued a policy of total assimilation of the American Indian into mainstream American society. [34] In 1918, Carlisle boarding school was closed because Pratt's method of assimilating American Indian students through off-reservation boarding schools was perceived as outdated. [34]
In North Carolina, Native Americans are more likely to live in rural areas. Just over 300,000 people who identify as Native American or Alaska Native reside in the state, according to the 2020 Census.