Commentary
Beginning with the Indian Relocation Act of 1956, the federal government’s answer to the persistent poverty of Native Americans was to point to the lack of jobs in tribal communities and encourage their members to move to bigger, more prosperous cities in search of a better life.
Over the next three decades it is estimated that more than 750,000 indigenous individuals left their homelands and migrated to cities like Denver, Baltimore, and Minneapolis. For members of Virginia’s Upper M...