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Record Details - ED445851
| Title: Remarks of Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, at the Ceremony Acknowledging the 175th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. |
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| Title: | Remarks of Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, at the Ceremony Acknowledging the 175th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. |
| Authors: | Gover, Kevin |
| Descriptors: | Acculturation; American Indian History; American Indians; Boarding Schools; Colonialism; Federal Indian Relationship; Genocide; Speeches; Trust Responsibility (Government); United States History; War |
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| Publisher: | Full text at Web site: http://www.doi.gov/bia/as-ia/175gover.htm. |
| Publication Date: | 2000-09-08 |
| Pages: | 4 |
| Pub Types: | Opinion Papers |
| Abstract: | Immediately upon its establishment in 1824, the Office of Indian Affairs was an instrument by which the United States enforced its ambition against the Indian nations. As the nation expanded West, the agency participated in the ethnic cleansing that befell the western tribes. War begets tragedy, but the deliberate spread of disease, the decimation of the bison herds, the use of alcohol to destroy mind and body, and the cowardly killing of women and children made for tragedy on a scale so ghastly that it cannot be dismissed as merely the inevitable consequence of the clash of competing ways of life. After the devastation of tribal economies, the BIA set out to destroy all things Indian by forbidding the speaking of Indian languages, prohibiting traditional religious activities, outlawing traditional government, and making Indians ashamed of who they were. Worst of all, the BIA committed these acts against the children entrusted to its boarding schools. The trauma of shame, fear, and anger has passed from one generation to the next, and manifests itself in the rampant alcoholism, drug abuse, and domestic violence that plague Indian country. The BIA expresses its profound sorrow for these wrongs, extends this formal apology to Indian people for its historical conduct, and makes promises for its future conduct. (TD) |
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| Identifiers: | Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| Record Type: | Non-Journal |
| Level: | 1 - Available on microfiche |
| Institutions: | Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. |
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| Languages: | English |
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