Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Lambert Valerie
Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Lambert Valerie What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?The Bureau of Indian Affairs was hatched…
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Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Lambert Valerie
What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?The Bureau of Indian Affairs was hatched in the U.S. Yet beginning in the 1970s, American Indians and Alaska Natives took over and now run the agency. Department of War to subjugate and eliminate American Indians.
Choctaw anthropologist Valerie Lambert argues that, instead of fulfilling settler-colonial goals, the Indians in the BIA have been leveraging federal power to fight settler colonialism, battle white supremacy, and serve the interests of their people.Although the missteps and occasional blunders of the Indians in the BIA have at times damaged the federal-Indian relationship and fueled the ire of their people, and although the BIA is massively underfunded, Indians began crafting the BIA into a Native agency by reformulating the meanings of concepts that lay at
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