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Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN 978-1-933116-98-3. Pevar, Stephan E. (2004). The Rights of Indians and Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian and Tribal Rights. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-6718-4. Pommershiem, Frank (1997).
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to United States federal Indian law and policy: Federal Indian policy – establishes the relationship between the United States Government and the Indian Tribes within its borders. The Constitution gives the federal government primary responsibility for dealing with tribes.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...
Pages in category "United States federal Indian policy" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The American Indian Policy Review Commission was a commission established in 1975 with Public Law 93-580 during the 93rd Congress. [1] The commission was established in order to conduct a comprehensive review of the relationship between the USA federal government and Native Americans. [2]
In addition, Public Law 280, one of the first major laws contributing to U.S. Indian termination policy, [4] proposed to terminate the federal government's relations with several tribes which were determined to be far along the path of assimilation. [5] These policies were enacted by the United States Congress under congressional plenary power. [6]
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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 ...