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A 4 page paper which examines what Indian policy was like before and after John Collier. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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American population suffered in many ways. While the majority of the Native population was peaceful and based in agricultural and traditional practices, the Europeans saw them as primitive and as
such took advantage of them, taking away their land and ultimately not really giving them any rights until the 20th century. One of the biggest changes to Indian policy in
the United States came with the arrival of John Collier. The following paper examines Native American policy before and after John Collier. John Collier and Native American Policy
The nation had a long history of controlling, through Indian policy, the Native Americans in the nation. By the time Collier arrived on the scene things were apparently in a
very dire situation concerning anything the Natives had once owned and the social condition of the Native peoples. "When Mr. Collier took office the records of the Indian Bureau showed
that the Indian lands had shrunk from 113,000,000 acres in 1887, when the land-allotment law was passed, to 47,000,000 acres" (History Matters, 2007). In addition the tribal funds had gone
from $500,000,000 to $12,000,000, with 93% of the funds essentially used for the maintenance of the bureau (History Matters, 2007). In addition
the federal money was also being used on boarding schools which were clearly not something that benefited the native people in any way (History Matters, 2007). In these boarding schools
the children were taken away from their families and all but forced to become white children, forcing their native cultures out of them (History Matters, 2007). In addition, just prior
to the arrival of Collier and his actions, in 1924, the Natives had been given the right to vote, which many believe was the final step in assimilating the Native,
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