11 Facts About Indian reservation

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An Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a federally recognized Native American tribal nation whose government is accountable to the U S Bureau of Indian Affairs and not to the state government in which it is located.

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In 1764 the "Plan for the Future Management of Indian reservation Affairs" was proposed by the Board of Trade of the British government.

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Indian Treaties, and Laws and Regulations Relating to Indian Affairs was a document signed by President Andrew Jackson in which he states that "we have placed the land reserves in a better state for the benefit of society" with approval of indigenous reservations prior to 1850.

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Indian reservation says, "the reconnaissance of explorers and other American officials understood that Indigenous Country possessed good land, bountiful game, and potential mineral resources.

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Passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 marked the systematization of a U S federal government policy of forcibly moving Native populations away from European-populated areas.

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6.

Indian reservation Reorganization Act of 1934, known as the Howard-Wheeler Act, was sometimes called the Indian reservation New Deal and was initiated by John Collier.

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The court decision turned, in part, on the perception of Indian reservation character, contending that the tribe did not have jurisdiction over the alienated allotments.

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The roughly 11, 000 tribe members were imprisoned here in what the United States government deemed an experimental Indian reservation that failed because it became too expensive, there were too many people to feed, and they were continuously raided by other native tribes.

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The term Indian reservation is one that creates territorialities or claims on places.

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Land designated to the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservation was originally considered barren and unproductive by white settlers until 1921 when prospectors scoured the land for oil.

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11.

Boyden took advantage of this situation, presenting it to the House Subcommittee on Indian reservation Affairs claiming that if the government did not step in and do something, a bloody war would ensue between the tribes.

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