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ERIC Number: EJ620432
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0021-8731
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Remarks of Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs: Address to Tribal Leaders.
Gover, Kevin
Journal of American Indian Education, v39 n2 p4-6 2000
Assistant Secretary Gover apologizes for the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) actions in the ethnic cleansing of American Indian tribes and the destruction of Indian cultures. He asserts the agency's moral responsibility of putting things right and proposes that a healing process begin and that the BIA work to reinvent itself as an instrument of Native prosperity. (TD)
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian History, American Indians, Boarding Schools, Colonialism, Federal Indian Relationship, Genocide, Speeches, Trust Responsibility (Government), United States History, War
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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