Bureau of Indian Affairs: Difference between revisions

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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.

On September 8, 2000, Assistant Secretary Kevin Gover apologized for the BIA's participation in the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in the United States.

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.

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*The BIA played a major role in the [[American Indian Wars]] during the 1800's, as well as the [[Amerindian Genocide]] in the United States.

* 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 laws~~|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 laws]] that suppressed African-Americans in the South and the [[concentration camp]]s under the [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] regime.

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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.
+On September 8, 2000, Assistant Secretary Kevin Gover apologized for the BIA's participation in the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in the United States.
 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.
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 *The BIA played a major role in the [[American Indian Wars]] during the 1800's, as well as the [[Amerindian Genocide]] in the United States.
 * 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 laws|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 laws]] that suppressed African-Americans in the South and the [[concentration camp]]s under the [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] regime.
 [[Category:Criminals]]