Editing Bureau of Indian Affairs (section)

== Biography ==
{{Quote|They are lazy, drug addicts, and alcoholics who rely on the government to survive.|A racist stigma theory projected by the BIA.}}
Ever since its establishment in 1824, the BIA has been regulating federal policies on Native American tribes throughout the United States and having control over their lands through federal trusts. The BIA was responsible for the [[Ethnic cleansing|forced removal]] of Native Americans to [[Indian reservations|reservations]] and also implemented assimilation policies projected onto Native Americans, from removing children from their families to attend boarding schools to forcibly relocating tribal members to cities as a means of [[Indian termination policy]]. The BIA also used Indian agents to interact with Native Americans on behalf of the government as well as to protect natives from settlers until that role was abolished during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency.

To this day, Native Americans are left as disadvantaged on their own lands due to a racist stigma theory projected by the BIA that portrays Amerindians as wards who are incapable of managing their own lands as well as being primitive socialists with no understanding of property rights, as their cultures are viewed as incompatible with market institutions. In addition, the 56 million acres of land on Native American reservations are held in trust by the federal government, which deprives the reservation residents of their rights to control their property, thus leaving many reservations in a state of poverty.

The BIA also uses a [[eugenics]] policy known as [[blood quantum]] to define a person's native identity based on the degree of their native ancestry, which is an effective way to destroy indigenous communities based on race.