Boarding School and Land Allotment Eras 1879-1933
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1917
Texas banker appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Cato Sells, appointed by President Woodrow Wilson, sets up “competency commissions” and issues titles to...Read More
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1918-1919
Influenza epidemics sweep reservations and boarding schools
The U.S. government is unresponsive to the health crisis in Arizona, New Mexico, and Rocky...Read More
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1924
Passage of Indian Citizenship Act
Also known as the Snyder Act, this allows some Indians to vote in national elections....Read More
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1924-1927
Trachoma eye experiment surgeries
The Office of Indian Affairs begins a national campaign in 1924 to eliminate the infectious...Read More
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1928
Meriam Report is issued
A three-year study is commissioned to examine the economies, health, education, and government administration of...Read More
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1930
U.S. Senate confirms systematic kidnapping of Dine’ children for boarding schools
The Senate Investigating Committee finds that missionaries and churches who run boarding schools authorize kidnappings...Read More
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1930s-1960s
Tuberculosis sanatoriums and medical experimentation
The federal government focuses on developing tuberculosis sanatoriums and communities record examples of experimentation. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/indigenous-sanatorium-suvivors-medical-experiments-1.4301131)
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1931-1936
Grave robbing continues
Ales Hrdlicka of the Department of Anthropology of the Smithsonian travels to the Larsen Bay...Read More
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1932-1936
Federal agents destroy Dine’ livestock
More than 250,000 sheep and goats are destroyed without any Dine’ consultation in accordance with...Read More
