The Bureau of Indian Affairs: Activities Since 1945

1978 ◽  
Vol 436 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
Raymond V. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Bureau Of Indian Affairs ◽  
Indian Affairs

scholarly journals The Political Economy Of American Indian Allotment Revisited

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew T. Gregg ◽  
D. Mitchell Cooper
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Model Specification ◽  
The Political ◽  
Regulatory Change ◽  
Bureau Of Indian Affairs ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Administrative Control ◽  
Educational Spending ◽  
Indian Affairs

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">This paper criticizes McChesney's (1990) hypothesis that the decisions to initially and subsequently terminate American Indian allotment were based on the Bureau of Indian Affairs&rsquo; (BIA) interest to inflate their budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>By adopting a richer database on the BIA appropriations from 1877-1945 and correcting for model specification problems, I find no empirical evidence supporting any of McChesney's hypotheses concerning the bureaucratic demand for regulatory change. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>In fact, other large budgetary items, such as New Deal relief funding, Court of Claims judgments, and educational spending, crowded out BIA land management appropriations over these years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Interestingly, a cursory overview of this period illustrates how the BIA fought for less, rather than more, administrative control over Indian affairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p>

Cartographic Encounters at the Bureau of Indian Affairs Geographic Information System Center of Calculation

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Palmer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
American Indians ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
United States Bureau ◽  
Bureau Of Indian Affairs ◽  
Geospatial Technologies ◽  
Indian Affairs

The centering processes of geographic information system (GIS) development at the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was an extension of past cartographic encounters with American Indians through the central control of geospatial technologies, uneven development of geographic information resources, and extension of technically dependent clientele. Cartographic encounters included the historical exchanges of geographic information between indigenous people and non-Indians in North America. Scientists and technicians accumulated geographic information at the center of calculation where scientific maps, models, and simulations emerged. A study of GIS development at the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs will demonstrate some centering processes.

The Chinle Dog Shoots

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-129
Author(s):  
Khalil Anthony Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
State Power ◽  
Bureau Of Indian Affairs ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Federal Authority ◽  
Colonial Governance ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Indian Affairs

In the 1950s, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) managed the Navajo Reservation's feral dog population by scheduling semi-annual “dog shoots.” After one gruesome dog shoot resulted in seventeen slaughtered dogs in Chinle, Arizona, community members pressed local BIA authorities to reform reservation dog control, an effort that pitted the interethnic community against an authoritarian form of settler-colonial governance. Because citizenship on the reservation—for Navajo and non-Navajo alike—was effectively rendered inferior to that of citizens outside the reservation, substantive changes to local BIA policies required an alliance with a constituency beyond the reservation’s borders, one with full access to state power—in this case, the National Dog Welfare Guild. This article thus demonstrates Native American grass-roots activism and boundary politics against oppressive federal authority.

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