Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs

by Valerie Lambert

Book Overview

What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?

The Bureau of Indian Affairs was hatched in the U.S. Department of War to subjugate and eliminate American Indians. Yet beginning in the 1970s, American Indians and Alaska Natives took over and now run the agency. Choctaw anthropologist Valerie Lambert argues that, instead of fulfilling settler-colonial goals, the Indians in the BIA have been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517914531
• ISBN13: 9781517914530
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"