Under the
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the federal government allowed tribes to adopt constitutions or other governing documents.
Even though some tribal courts already incorporate procedures similar to those used in the federal courts, any mandatory change would interfere with a tribe's sovereignty and undermine the
Indian Reorganization Act. By relaxing the TLOA and VAWA restrictions, tribes would be able to keep their tribal customs in place while still protecting their members.
Likewise, the Parliament of Canada has yet to offer any substantive legislation in the vein and magnitude of a modern day
Indian Reorganization Act, even though numerous sources have pointed to that type of solution.
The final chapter approaches the
Indian Reorganization Act through attention to the commissioner of Indian Affairs who proposed it, John Collier, who had also been at Taos with Luhan and whose initiatives in Indian policy, Pfister argues, institutionalized many of the perspectives on Native people circulating there.
Responding to questions from the interviewers, the narrators described their personal histories and their people's history after Oneida removal to Wisconsin from the years prior to the 1887 Dawes Allotment Act through World War I, the Great Depression, and the 1934
Indian Reorganization Act (Wheeler-Howard Act or Indian New Deal) which reversed the Dawes Act allotment process and authorized tribal self-government.
The
Indian Reorganization Act, for example, diminished Lemhi influence in reservation affairs by transferring more power to the Shoshone-Bannocks.
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.
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Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, 25 U.S.C.
The research will focus on three influencing factors: the original form of tribal government, the Treaty of 1855, and the acceptance of the
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.
THE
INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT: CONGRESSES AND BILLS.
We had a landslide vote to stay with the
Indian Reorganization Act because we got the land under that act.
The
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, also known as the Wheeler-Howard Act, inaugurated a sweeping change of policy in Native American affairs.