Word: bia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has not yet offered comment on the charges, the report has already had some impact. Federal officials met with the 12 Indian members of an ad hoc committee formed to follow up on the report's accusations...
...personally feel that the public schools are systematically incapable of aiding Indians. Also, the degree of mistreatment has been underestimated. People don't seem to recognize the colonial administration of Indians by the BIA. I would hope that Indians will have an increased consciousness and assume direct control," Yudof added...
...aerospace companies are banking on new Government contracts to set production lines humming again. The largest single award in the offing is for the BIA bomber. Boeing, North American Rockwell and General Dynamics are competing. The Air Force wants 240 B-lA's, at a total cost of between $11.8 billion and $12.6 billion. But Congress is already disenchanted with cost overruns on the C-5A transport. And as long as there remains a possibility of some agreement with the Soviet Union on strategic-arms limitation, there remains some doubt that Congress will vote money to build...
...inmate" of one of the BIA schools. The school offered no courses in math higher than arithmetic, no languages, no electives, and only elementary science classes. What we were offered was regimentation, strict segregation from the white kids in town and an insidious way of robbing us of our dignity by the staff, both Indian and white...
There is strong resentment, he said. among Seneca chiefs towards dealings with the BIA...