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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 55 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, which leaves many reservations in a state of poverty. | 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 55 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, which leaves many reservations in a state of poverty. | ||
The BIA also uses racist [[blood quantum laws]] to define a person's "Indianess" based on the degree of their native ancestry, which is an effective way to destroy indigenous communities based on race. | |||
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Under the Dawes Act of 1887, the BIA began to remove indigenous children from their families to hundreds of boarding schools, such as the [[Carlisle Indian Industrial School]], in an attempt to assimilate them into white culture, based off Colonel [[Richard Pratt]]'s ideologies to "kill the Indian and save the man". This practice remained in force until President Lyndon Johnson ended this policy. After boarding schools began to close, the BIA then forced many indigenous people to move to urban areas away from their reservations. In addition, the BIA began removing children from their families to have them adopted by white families, while claiming them to be orphans under the Indian Child Welfare Act. | Under the Dawes Act of 1887, the BIA began to remove indigenous children from their families to hundreds of boarding schools, such as the [[Carlisle Indian Industrial School]], in an attempt to assimilate them into white culture, based off Colonel [[Richard Pratt]]'s ideologies to "kill the Indian and save the man". This practice remained in force until President Lyndon Johnson ended this policy. After boarding schools began to close, the BIA then forced many indigenous people to move to urban areas away from their reservations. In addition, the BIA began removing children from their families to have them adopted by white families, while claiming them to be orphans under the Indian Child Welfare Act. | ||
In 1934, the Indian Reorganization Act was passed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a means to reverse the assimilation policies on Native Americans and grant the tribes sovereignty. The act was also passed to use blood quantum laws that require tribal governments to only accept those that have native ancestry into their communities. | |||
In 1972, a Native American activist movement known as the American Indian Movement took over the BIA office to raise awareness of the BIA's abuses of indigenous people living on reservations during a caravan referred to as the "Trail of Broken Treaties". In 1997, when Principal Chief [[Joe Byrd]] ordered the illegal impeachment of the justice system of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the BIA recklessly and illegally intervened to assume control of the political affairs of the Cherokee Nation and they remained in place until Byrd lost the election to Chad "Corntassel" Smith in 1999. | In 1972, a Native American activist movement known as the American Indian Movement took over the BIA office to raise awareness of the BIA's abuses of indigenous people living on reservations during a caravan referred to as the "Trail of Broken Treaties". In 1997, when Principal Chief [[Joe Byrd]] ordered the illegal impeachment of the justice system of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the BIA recklessly and illegally intervened to assume control of the political affairs of the Cherokee Nation and they remained in place until Byrd lost the election to Chad "Corntassel" Smith in 1999. | ||
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* Some of the residents living on the Native American reservations have referred to the indigenous employees working for the BIA as "apples", as they're considered "red on the outside and white on the inside". | * Some of the residents living on the Native American reservations have referred to the indigenous employees working for the BIA as "apples", as they're considered "red on the outside and white on the inside". | ||
* Some critics have compared the reservation system to the "[[Jim Crow]]" system that suppressed African-Americans in the South and the [[concentration camp]]s under the [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] regime. | * Some critics have compared the reservation system to the "[[Jim Crow]]" system that suppressed African-Americans in the South and the [[concentration camp]]s under the [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] regime. | ||
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