Description
In 1934, Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier began a series of "congresses" with American Indians to discuss his proposed federal bill for granting self-government to tribal reservations. For the first time, the reservation Indian was asked for input in the structuring of American Indian relations with federal and state government and law. In The Indian Reorganization Act, Vine Deloria, Jr., has compiled the actual historical records of those congresses.
Deloria makes available important documents of the premier years of reform in federal Indian policy as well as the bill itself. A version of Collier's act eventually passed Congress, but in a less far-reaching form. Nevertheless, a new concept of self-government had emerged, one that now defines the federal government's approach to American Indian policy and that has changed forever the way American Indians define themselves.
Author: Vine Deloria
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 07/15/2002
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.81lbs
Size: 11.28h x 8.72w x 1.17d
ISBN13: 9780806133980
ISBN10: 0806133988
BISAC Categories:
- Law | Constitutional
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies