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== 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. 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.

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 ~~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.

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.

== Events ==

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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.

After boarding schools began to close, the BIA then forced many indigenous people to move to urban areas away from their reservations under an [[Indian termination policy]] until a series of protests by the American Indian Movement forced the BIA to restore tribal sovereignty and the policy was officially discontinued under the presidency of [[Richard Nixon]].

After boarding schools began to close, the BIA then forced many indigenous people to move to urban areas away from their reservations under an Indian termination policy until a series of protests by the American Indian Movement forced the BIA to restore tribal sovereignty and the policy was officially discontinued under the presidency of [[Richard Nixon]].

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".

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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 2007, when human rights activist Russell Means proposed that the Lakota nation should ~~have~~ an independent country, the BIA ~~stated~~ that the withdrawal "doesn't mean anything" and that the tribal governments would violate the ~~people~~'s rights.

In 2007, when human rights activist Russell Means proposed that the Lakota nation should be recognized as an independent country, the withdrawal was turned down by a BIA bureaucrat named Gary Garrison, who argued that the withdrawal "doesn't mean anything" and stated that the tribal governments would inevitably violate the peoples' rights.

There have recently been reports of reservation residents being killed by BIA officers, particularly in the Dakotas. One example involved a man named David Suarez getting fatally shot by a BIA officer in the Spirit Lake reservation in North Dakota, which led to an investigation by the FBI, who concluded that three other people were involved in the conflict and none of them were injured.

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 == 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. 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.
+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 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.
+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.
 == Events ==
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 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.
-After boarding schools began to close, the BIA then forced many indigenous people to move to urban areas away from their reservations under an [[Indian termination policy]] until a series of protests by the American Indian Movement forced the BIA to restore tribal sovereignty and the policy was officially discontinued under the presidency of [[Richard Nixon]].
+After boarding schools began to close, the BIA then forced many indigenous people to move to urban areas away from their reservations under an Indian termination policy until a series of protests by the American Indian Movement forced the BIA to restore tribal sovereignty and the policy was officially discontinued under the presidency of [[Richard Nixon]].
 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".
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 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 2007, when human rights activist Russell Means proposed that the Lakota nation should have an independent country, the BIA stated that the withdrawal "doesn't mean anything" and that the tribal governments would violate the people's rights.
+In 2007, when human rights activist Russell Means proposed that the Lakota nation should be recognized as an independent country, the withdrawal was turned down by a BIA bureaucrat named Gary Garrison, who argued that the withdrawal "doesn't mean anything" and stated that the tribal governments would inevitably violate the peoples' rights.
 There have recently been reports of reservation residents being killed by BIA officers, particularly in the Dakotas. One example involved a man named David Suarez getting fatally shot by a BIA officer in the Spirit Lake reservation in North Dakota, which led to an investigation by the FBI, who concluded that three other people were involved in the conflict and none of them were injured.