Congress Ratifies the National Council on Indian Opportunity
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Native Americans, American Indians, Laws, Acts, Legislation, Human Rights
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: August, 1970
Article abstract: The National Council on Indian Opportunity gave Native Americans unprecedented top positions in the U.S. government and, for the first time, a voice in the formulation of a new federal Indian policy in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
Summary of Event
Since 1824, management of Native-American affairs in the United States had fallen to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which became a subdivision of the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1849. For generations, Native Americans were governed by a BIA bureaucracy that was at best...
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