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Remarks of Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, at the Ceremony Acknowledging the 175th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Gover, Kevin – 2000
Immediately upon its establishment in 1824, the Office of Indian Affairs was an instrument by which the United States enforced its ambition against the Indian nations. As the nation expanded West, the agency participated in the ethnic cleansing that befell the western tribes. War begets tragedy, but the deliberate spread of disease, the decimation…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian History, American Indians, Boarding Schools
Remarks of Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs: Address to Tribal Leaders.
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Gover, Kevin – Journal of American Indian Education, 2000
Assistant Secretary Gover apologizes for the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) actions in the ethnic cleansing of American Indian tribes and the destruction of Indian cultures. He asserts the agency's moral responsibility of putting things right and proposes that a healing process begin and that the BIA work to reinvent itself as an instrument of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian History, American Indians, Boarding Schools