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Indian Policy (U.S.)

Books on: bureau of indian affairs

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A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

Book by E. Brian Titley; University of British Columbia Press, 1986

Subjects:

Canada--Dept. Of Indian Affairs And Northern Development--History, Indians Of North America--Canada--Government Relations, Scott, Duncan Campbell--1862-1947

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada E. Brian Titley...policies of the Department of Indian Affairs in a particularly turbulent...convenient focus. The administration of Indian Affairs was and still remains a complex...
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Markets for Federal Water: Subsidies, Property Rights, and the Bureau of Reclamation

Book by Richard W. Wahl; Resources for the Future, 1989

Subjects:

Federal Aid To Water Resources Development--West (U.S.), Irrigation--Government Policy--West (U.S.), United States--Bureau Of Reclamation, Water Resources Development--Government Policy--West (U.S.), Water Rights--West (U.S.), Water Transfer--Government Policy--West (U.S.)

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...charges, provided the lands remain in Indian hands. irrigators "ability to pay" to be paid by other water users such as users of hydroelectric power , a factor that varies...hydroelectric power. As discussed below, the bureaus estimated "ability to pay" is less than...
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The Bureau of Reclamation

Book by William E. Warne; Westview Press, 1973

Subjects:

United States--Bureau Of Reclamation

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...it had been absorbed into the Division of Water Resources, which was to be created...to improve coordination throughout the Bureau and to provide greater autonomy to the regions in handling local affairs. Under it, projects are administered...
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Public Lands Politics: Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management

Book by Paul J. Culhane; The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981

Subjects:

Forests And Forestry--Government Ownership--United States, Forests And Forestry--Multiple Use--United States, Public Lands--United States, United States--Bureau Of Land Management, United States--Forest Service

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...Statistics-1977 Washington, D.C., GPO, 1979 pp. 14-30, as modified by a 1980 correction of an inflated listing of Bureau of Indian Affairs acreage in Alaska. Juris dictions after implementation of the Alaska Lands Act are estimated by the author...
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Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account

Book by Stanley David Lyman, Floyd A. O'Neil, June K. Lyman, Susan McKay; University of Nebraska Press, 1993

Subjects:

Lyman, Stanley David--1913-1979--Diaries, United States--Bureau Of Indian Affairs--Officials And Employees--Diaries, Wounded Knee (S.D.)--History--Indian Occupation, 1973--Personal Narratives

Collections: History, Entire Library

Stanley Lyman, who was the Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973, gives an inside view of what happened when AIM (American Indian Movement) activists occupied the village of Wounded Knee. Photos. Map. Bibliography. Index.

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Journal Articles on: bureau of indian affairs

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The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era

Journal article by John Bloom; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...would free Native Americans from the yoke of government control. In fact, the policy of assimilation expanded the Bureau of Indian Affairs tremendously, leading to ever greater levels of bureaucracy and control than had existed before that time (154...
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Conflict Comes to Roost! the Bureau of Reclamation and the Federal Indian Trust Responsibility

Journal article by Harold Shepherd; Environmental Law, Vol. 31, 2001

Subjects:

Agriculture--Water-supply, Endangered Species Act of 1973, Native Americans--Fishing, Treaties--Interpretation and construction, United States. Bureau of Reclamation--Powers and duties, Water rights--Laws, regulations, etc.

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...Wildlife Service, Reclamation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States Geological...compensation against the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) under the Indian Claims...statement of Chris Kenney, Bureau of Indian Affairs)). (21) Pac. Coast Fedn...
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Residents at Risk: Wildlife and the Bureau of Land Management's Planning Process

Journal article by Kelly Nolen; Environmental Law, Vol. 26, 1996

Subjects:

Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, United States. Bureau of Land Management--Practice, Wildlife conservation--Laws, regulations, etc.

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...coordinate its planning process with that of state and local governments and Indian tribes.(218) Plans must provide for...consistency with policies and plans of other federal, state, and local agencies and Indian tribes; 5) opportunities to resolve...
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Managing Place and Identity: The Marin Coast Miwok Experience

Journal article by Jennifer Sokolove, Sally K. Fairfax, Breena Holland; The Geographical Review, Vol. 92, 2002

Subjects:

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs--Management, United States. National Park Service

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...offered by the state (the Bureau of Indian Affairs BIA and the U.S. Congress...York: Routledge. BIA U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1996. What Is the Background...Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Bourdieu, P. 1991. Language...
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Of Couscous and Control: The Bureau of Muslim Soldier Affairs and the Crisis of French Colonialism

Journal article by Ethan M. Orwin; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008

Subjects:

France. Army--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, France. Army--History, France. Army--Social policy, French colonialism--History, Hajj--1954 AD, Hajj--History, Muslims--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Muslims--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and surveillance seem to have been hallmarks of the Bureau of Muslim Soldier Affairs. The AMM further validated its idealized view of...Africa. AMM officials regarded social contact with the Indian, Malay, and Indonesian Muslim communities in Indochinese...

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Magazine Articles on: bureau of indian affairs

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Bureaucrats Circle Their Wagon: Facing Civil Contempt-of-Court Proceedings for Their Department's Role in Looting the Indian Trust Fund, Interior Officials Add Another Layer to the Bureaucracy

Magazine article by Kelly Patricia O'Meara; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, December 31, 2001

Subjects:

Contempt of court--Cases, Indian Allotment Act of 1887, Native Americans--Finance, Norton, Gale--Cases, Swimmer, Ross--Political activity, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs--Investigations

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...be headed by Ross Swimmer, who was head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) during the Reagan administration. Many familiar...Thats crazy. The oil companies just told the Bureau of Indian Affairs, `We took X many barrels of oil. There was no...
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Reservations about Indian Paternalism

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, December 22, 1997

Subjects:

Native Americans--Reservations, Navajo Indian Reservation--History, Navajos--Land tenure, Tetons (Native American people)--History, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs--History

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...the most significant events. The Indians had come to hear about an offer from the Interior Department and its Bureau of Indian Affairs for the U.S. government to turn over land to the various tribes where they could live on their own, undisturbed...
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Restoring Indian Trust Will Be Costly

Magazine article by Sean Paige; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, August 26, 2002

Subjects:

Native Americans--Government relations, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs--Management

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...that American Indians were supposed to have paid to them for the use of their land. So badly managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) were 1,400 tribal and 300,000 individual accounts that it will cost taxpayers about $900 million just to...
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The Natives Are Arrestless; the Justice Department Has Jurisdiction over Indian Reservations, but Is Letting People Get Away with Murder

Magazine article by Nicholas Hentoff; Washington Monthly, Vol. 22, December 1990

Subjects:

Jurisdiction--Interpretation and construction, Law enforcement--Political aspects, Native Americans--Criminal justice system, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs--Evaluation, United States. Department of Justice--Powers and duties

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...crimes." The governments own statistics support Mr. Lees charges. On reservations in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, Bureau of Indian Affairs officers investigated 2,456 felony cases in 1986 and the first half of 1987 but arrested only 181 suspects; thats...
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Gambling on the Future

Magazine article by Sean Paige; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, December 22, 1997

Subjects:

Casinos--Social aspects, Native American business enterprises--Economic aspects, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs--Social policy

Collections: Entire Library

...according to the World Wide Web site of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or BIA, which acknowledges that "the provision...uniformly doing better than they were under the Bureau of Indian Affairs." But what confidence can taxpayers have that...

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Newspaper Articles on: bureau of indian affairs

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Illegal Official Lobbying Claimed: 2 Indian Affairs Workers Named

Newspaper article by Barbara J. Saffir; The Washington Times, July 24, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...senators who sponsored the legislation say. A Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) employee was quoted in a news story as telling...by what appears to be concerted action by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to actively generate public opposition" to the...
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Babbitt to Testify before Senate Panel on Indian Affairs

Newspaper article by Jerry Seper; The Washington Times, March 3, 1999

Subjects:

Babbitt, Bruce

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...various Indian tribes - that accused the departments Bureau of Indian Affairs of mismanaging the trust funds. Mr. Babbitt...by the Arthur Andersen accounting firm said the Bureau of Indian Affairs could not account for $2.4 billion in transactions...
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Probe Widens into Interior's Denial of Indian Casino License

Newspaper article by Jerry Seper; The Washington Times, April 1, 1999

Subjects:

Babbitt, Bruce, Ickes, Harold

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1995, Mr. Babbitt denied the Chippewas permission to build the casino at the Hudson site, although the regional Bureau of Indian Affairs had recommended its approval. The rival tribes - including the St. Croix Chippewa and Oneida of Wisconsin and...
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Treasury Shredded Indian-Trust Documents: Lies, Cover-Up Cited in Records of Court

Newspaper article by Jerry Seper; The Washington Times, December 7, 1999

Subjects:

Lamberth, Royce C., Rubin, Robert

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...representing various tribes - accused the Interiors Bureau of Indian Affairs of mismanagement. Judge Lamberth had sought...by the Arthur Andersen accounting firm said the Bureau of Indian Affairs could not account for $2.4 billion in transactions...
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Interior Officials Accused of Destroying Indian Records

Newspaper article by Jerry Seper; The Washington Times, March 25, 1999

Subjects:

Babbitt, Bruce

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...been unable to verify how much cash has been collected. An audit by the Arthur Andersen accounting firm said the Bureau of Indian Affairs cannot account for $2.4 billion in trust funds. During a hearing March 3 before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: bureau of indian affairs

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Indian Affairs, Bureau Of

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

INDIAN AFFAIRS, BUREAU OF created (1824) in the U.S...in protecting their rights. The Bureau of Indian Affairs instead evolved primarily into...Americans in the United States. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has also been officially called...
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American Indian Movement

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...international recognition of their treaty rights. In 1972, members of AIM briefly took over the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. They complained that the government had created the tribal councils on reservations in 1934...
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Interior, United States Department of The

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...generating electrical power. The divisions of the department concerned with public land management include the bureaus of Indian Affairs and Land Management. The Bureau of Land Management was formed in 1946 by merging the General Land Office...
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Pueblo , Indigenous People of North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...government in the form of civil officers, but the de facto government and ceremonial organization remained native. The Bureau of Indian Affairs introduced elected officials in Santa Clara, Laguna, Zuni, and Isleta, and the Hopi have an elected council on...
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Gallup

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...local trade. The citys principal employer is the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Uranium, oil, natural gas, and coal are among the minerals...Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

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