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New Deal Experimentation and the Political Economy of the Yankton Sioux, 1930-1934
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Houser, Teresa M. – Great Plains Quarterly, 2011
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election to the presidency in 1932 signaled a mandate for sweeping reform at the federal level to lift the nation out of the economic turbulence of the Great Depression. Under Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) joined other agencies in launching policies to rebuild economic…
Descriptors: American Indians, Rural Areas, Federal Indian Relationship, American Indian History
Sold! The Loss of Kiowa Allotments in the Post-Indian Reorganization Era
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Palmer, Mark H. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2011
The fragmentation of large nineteenth-century reservations resulted in the creation of American Indian allotment geographies in the United States. Federal Indian policy, namely the General Allotment Act of 1887, allowed the US government to break up large reservations, allot land to individual Indians, and sell the surplus to non-Indian settlers.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Tribes, United States History, American Indian History
Upper Skagit (Washington) and Gambell (Alaska) Indian Reorganization Act Governments: Struggles with Constraints, Restraints and Power.
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Robbins, Lynn Arnold – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1986
Compares tribal government of the Upper Skagit tribe and St. Lawrence Island Eskimos. Summarizes tribal histories and describes current relationships with federal, state, and county governments. Reveals the complexities of tribal government functions and the dominant influence of federal policies on tribal affairs. Contains 10 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian History, American Indians, Eskimos
Constructions and Contestations of the Authoritative Voice: Native American Communities and the Federal Writers' Project, 1935-41
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Morgan, Mindy J. – American Indian Quarterly, 2005
This article examines competing views of representation and authorship regarding Native American communities in a variety of projects supported by the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), including the American Guide series and state-sponsored works. The author begins by briefly contextualizing the FWP's Native American projects within the shifting…
Descriptors: American Indians, American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indian History
Hopis, Western Shoshones, and Southern Utes: Three Different Responses to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.
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Clemmer, Richard O. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1986
Compares the impact of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 on the Hopis, Western Shoshones, and Southern Utes with regard to land reform, economic development, and tribal management. Describes salient tribal characteristics prior to 1934, and federal government tactics to force acceptance of the Act. Contains 83 references. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Case Studies
Indian Self-Rule. First-Hand Accounts of Indian-White Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan. Current Issues in the American West, Volume IV.
Philp, Kenneth R., Ed. – 1986
Keynote addresses and panel sessions at a conference examining Indian history in the 50 years since the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) are collected in this volume. Part One discusses the Indian New Deal and federal Indian policy from 1933-1945. Part Two deals with 1945-1960 and the federal policy of terminating tribal status. Part…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indians, Federal Indian Relationship