Treatment of Native American

By drobinsongwd51
  • Office of Indian affairs

    Office of Indian affairs

    In 1824, the Office of Indian Affairs was created in order to resolve the land issue
  • Dawes Act of 1887

    Dawes Act of 1887

    destroyed the reservation system by subdividing tribal lands into individual plots.
  • the Great Depression

    the Great Depression

    In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged the passage of the US Indian Reorganization Act, which instituted a “New Deal” for Native Americans.