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Indian Reorganization Act

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Indian Reorganization Act

US federal act passed in 18 June 1934, aimed at re-establishing government by American Indian peoples and preserving American Indian culture. A survey of reservation life under the Dawes General Allotment Act discovered appalling living conditions and recommended drastic reforms. The Indian Reorganization Act returned thousands of acres of land to reservations, provided federal financial and technical aid to ethnic groups, supplied health and education services, and encouraged the adoption of written constitutions. The Act forms the basis of current federal legislation on American Indians.



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Her study centers on the century starting with the Indian Removal Act of 1830 through the Dawes Act of 1887 that granted reservation land to individual tribesmen, to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 that returned certain land to Indian tribes.
Senier, Siobhan, ed. Voices of American Indian assimilation and ... by Moore, Patricia / Kliatt
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, also known as the Wheeler-Howard Act, inaugurated a sweeping change of policy in Native American affairs.
`Faith-Based' Social Services: For Native Americans, It Was A Trail ... by Sullivan, John M. / Church & State
11) Despite the fact that the federal government reversed this policy once again in the Eisenhower years and then again in the 1970s, the Indian Reorganization Act of the 1930s did serve to usher out the old effort to force contemporaneous notions of modernity onto the American Indians, as temporary as this was.
Mourning Dove's Cogewea: Writing Her Way into Modernity by Kent, Alicia / MELUS
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